Friday, September 16, 2005

Menlove's Flaming Hayrick


Vaughan v. Menlove
132 Eng. Rep. 490 (C.P. 1837)

"... he ought not to be responsible for the misfotune of not possessing the highest order of intelligence."

A diplomatic way of saying it's not my client's fault that he's a drooling idiot....

3 Comments:

Blogger menlove said...

i think i remember hearing something about this case...

8:55 AM  
Blogger Erroneous on all counts said...

i think i remember not even knowing what class that is from (i'm a bit of a slacker)(in this case bit means a really big one).

9:06 AM  
Blogger T.A.L. said...

When reading this case last week in torts, I did think about the blogger.

11:41 PM  

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