Carol:

I seriously doubt there would be any interest in such a resolution. I wish that were not true.

In the US, a land purchaser would have a viable suit against the seller for breach of the warranty in the deed, or at least a title insurance claim. Brink brought the property from Madame Fleming. Her son Louis-Constant Fleming is a senator. He is a Beauperthuy heir. If anyone could get this going, he is the one. If there was ever a time it is now.

When the Dutch were faced with a court decision saying the missing Beauperthuy heirs, from the missing child of Daniel B... who died in the 1860s, had a claim to lots of Dutch land, including the airport, they did what they had to. They passed a law that reversed the court decision and wiped out the interests of these countless heirs. The English system (as in the US) is a lot more logical. If you are out of possession of property for a period of time (21 years in some states, 10 in others) and someone else is in open, visible, hostile, exclusive possession for the time period required, you have no right to evict them. In France, for some God unknown reason, even though the heirs have been out of possesion since the 1860s, they have rights to the ground (but not the buildings).

Jim