Re: Help, bought 'lemon' without the 'bill of sale'

in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], AZGuy at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/27/03 4:18 PM:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:59:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amr)
> wrote:
> 
>> I bought a 'lemon' and I want to find out of the sale was legal or
>> not. Some facts:
>> 
>> * I bought the car in California 1 week ago for about $4000
>> * I do not hold a 'bill of sale' (was never signed)
>> * the person I bought it from was not the registered holder of the
>> "certificate of Title"
>> * The title is signed by the original holder on the line " I herby
>> certify under penalty of perjury under the law of the State of
>> California...", dated more than 5 month ago.
>> * The rear side of the title is completely empty
>>
> 
> You are wondering if the "sale" is legal???  What sale?  You have no
> bill of sale, no title in your name, no receipt, no nothing.  You gave
> someone $4000 and got none of the needed legal papers.  Whoever owns
> the car could probably have you arrested for car theft.

If you bought the car in good faith, there probably was a sale all right,
although unfortunately it's hard for you to prove it right now.  But there
apparently were witnesses, etc. etc.  To set all this straight probably
involves a certain amount of lawyering, maybe a lot of that.  Maybe you can
get some free or low-cost legal services from a law school clinic, or
something of that nature.

Just wondering, are you a gullible person ?  If so, you may want to work on
that so a thing like that won't happen again.

Lots of luck.

nal