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Legal Insight
Current news, cases, and ideas affecting law and practice.

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"[N]o more than handing a document to a sheep and saying "By not repudiating this agreement, I may eat you." establishes a mutual and common intent."

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Word of the Week -

The definition betrays the age of the by-law which was passed in 1963.

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Legal Wit—

"[T]he only sensible course is to follow the time-honoured maxim, 'Sue everybody in sight.'"

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legal wit—take the lane, don't make your own

[M]otorcycles could filter in and fill up the spaces between the vehicle lanes, like styrofoam peanuts filling empty space in a shipping box.

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legal wit students' drunken mishaps

[I]nhibitions are relaxed. Those nights do not always end well.

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The Rule Against Perpetuities is a notoriously difficult area of law–able to confound even the sharpest legal minds. The C.E.D. provides a clear and concise explanation of this topic, deftly illuminating the logic behind the Rule. Behold!

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word of the week - english civil war

[a] long, difficult and often bloody struggle between the Crown and Parliament culminated in the victory of the Parliamentarians in the so-called “Glorious Revolution”

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tax protester

In other words, these groups or individuals seek to avoid income tax obligations without any proper legal foundation.

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word of the week emotion hate speech

Emotion is an "instinctive ... feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge" and is therefore subjective

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