Folks,
Within the next few weeks, we hope to introduce operation of our new land management system. This wonderful new application, developed by Eloise Pasteur, and available through our website, will make buying and managing land in the CDS sims far more convenient.
One feature of the new system is the generating of Land Deeds. Our current, and on-going, policy is to generate one deed for each citizen (or group of citizens), listing on that deed all holdings. The new deed system will, consistent with that policy, generate a "buyers" and a "sellers" deed for each transaction.
We need help drafting the verbiage of such a deed. The current deed form has many inadequacies. In addition, the fact of computer generation of these forms requires a re-working; organizing the text into the three sections indicated below.
Finally, we are constrained by the existing notary system to contain documents subject to notarization to fewer than 4096 characters. We plan to use extensive reference via URL to external documents which form any part of the agreement.
The software permits three sections to the deed, and i have placed a skeleton of such a deed below. The three sections are:
(1) A text Header, which contains no transaction specific details, but which can be modified periodically as needed.
(2) A relatively "set-in-stone" (meaning that the text is hard-coded into the app by the creator) section which besides the hard-coded text includes the transaction specific data
(3) A text End Piece, very similiar to the Header, containing no transaction specific details, but which can, from time to time, be conveniently modified as needed.
Here is a a skeleton version of the deed, for which I request your input. Since the code is not yet finalized, all three sections are open to adjustment. The contents of the data fields, however, are not open to such adjustment, since they derive from an existing elaborately fashioned database. Such data contents are marked below in [color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]cyan[/color:2sv2ffbe].
[color=green:2sv2ffbe]< beginning of Header >[/color:2sv2ffbe]
DEED FOR LAND
Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS)
Virtual World of Second Life
------------------------------------------------------
It is hereby recorded land ownership as follows
[color=green:2sv2ffbe]< end of Header >[/color:2sv2ffbe]
[color=red:2sv2ffbe]< beginning of hard-coded text with inserted filed data from the land database >[/color:2sv2ffbe]
Owner: {[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]group or individual owner name[/color:2sv2ffbe]}
holding land in the {[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]name of simulator[/color:2sv2ffbe]} simulator,
by this Deed Number {[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]deed number[/color:2sv2ffbe]}, superceding Deed Number {[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]previous deed number[/color:2sv2ffbe]},
holds the following parcels:
{[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]parcel#1[/color:2sv2ffbe]}
{[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]parcel#2[/color:2sv2ffbe]}
{[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]Parcel#3[/color:2sv2ffbe]}
{.....}
Total holding for {[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]owner[/color:2sv2ffbe]} is {[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]total square meters[/color:2sv2ffbe]} square meters in {[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]total number of parc[/color:2sv2ffbe]els} parcels. Monthly fees are US${[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]total monthly fees in US$[/color:2sv2ffbe]}.
This deed was prepared on {[color=cyan:2sv2ffbe]date of preparation[/color:2sv2ffbe]}.
[color=red:2sv2ffbe]< end of hard-coded text with inserted filed data from the land database >[/color:2sv2ffbe]
[color=blue:2sv2ffbe]< beginning of End Piece >[/color:2sv2ffbe]
Owner hereby acknowledges that they have read, understood, and agreed to the following.......
etc.. etc.. tec
[color=blue:2sv2ffbe]< end of End Piece >[/color:2sv2ffbe]
Please ask if this is not clear. Everything except the contents of the Cyan fields is subject to creation at this time. Once the application is built, only the Green Header section and the Blue End Piece section will be capable of convenient modification.
Thank you for any assistance you can give. Our new deed forms are vitally important.
Sudane.....