Sometimes Lawyers Get It Right

Jeopardy time, everybody (regular jeopardy, not double jeopardy...that's unconstitutional).  Category: "All of these things are just like the other"

Answer: "Felons, atheists, infants, mental incompetents, spouses, and financially involved persons"



*****Sing yourself the jeopardy song now...********





















Question: Who are witnesses excluded from testifying at common law?  Obviously.  I hate it when opposing counsel calls my mentally incompetent atheist felon infant wife to testify about our financial holdings.

Losing

"Equitable waste consists of injury to the reversionary interest in land which is inconsistent with good husbandry and is recognized only by the equity courts, but it does not constitute legal waste."

I don't know what that means

WINNING!!!

One of these things is not like the other...

Hey all, just thought I would poke my head up to share this gem with you:

At common law, four elements must be established to prove the offense of "kidnapping": there must be the

1. unlawful
2. restraint of a person's liberty
3. by force or show of force
4. so as to take the victim to another country.

I'll let you dig the history of that one out on your own.