[vkou]

Some of them don't know that they own the land. Many of them most certainly do.

He isn't conducting the lawsuit out of some strange desire to figure out who is related to whom, or to clarify some papers. The purpose of a quiet title lawsuit is to steal a piece of land from its owners.

Discovering who the other claimants are is the first step in this process. The second step in this process is... To force them to put their land up for auction, where it will be sold to the highest bidder. The current landowners have no say in this. [1]

And, at the end of the process, Zuckerburg's investigation and attourney fees will be billed to... The owners of the land. For some of those parcels, they are quite likely to be higher then the cost of the parcels.

You couldn't come up with a less fair law if you tried - because it was specifically designed to benefit a wealthy party, that wants to take possession of a bunch of land, and the only thing in the way is a bunch of peasants who refuse to sell.

[1] http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/01/18/business/facebooks-...