while the British constitution is unwritten
This has me thinking it's a part of the oral tradition, that there are bards who travel all over the nation, and are always present for meetings in the parliament to recite the constitution, using all those ancient memory keys like interior rhymes and refrains and couplets. It'd be like Homer performing the Illiad and the Odyssey, but with less plot, and extremely repetitous.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
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Madrigal Costello - Aug 06, 2003 9:28:01 am PDT #6212 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
Betsy HP - Aug 06, 2003 9:29:08 am PDT #6213 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
That would be fun. Sort of like singing the Preamble to the Constitution.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 06, 2003 9:37:04 am PDT #6214 of 9843
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sort of like singing the Preamble to the Constitution.
And Betsy earworms me with Schoolhouse rock. Not that that's the worst earworm in the world.
I may still know all the words from that song.
Sue - Aug 06, 2003 9:37:33 am PDT #6215 of 9843
hip deep in pie
Sue - Aug 06, 2003 9:39:30 am PDT #6216 of 9843
hip deep in pie
billytea - Aug 06, 2003 9:58:53 am PDT #6217 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This actually raises a question for me: Are Australia and Canada still mostly bound by English common law, or did you sit down and do a rewrite when you gained independence?
Australia still operates under a common law system, and where they haven't been superseded by statute or Australian case law, British case law is still applicable.
Among other things, this means that the law regarding the jurisdiction under which a contract is deemed to fall depends on the splendidly named Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandelgesellschaft.
Until the 1980s, cases heard under State law could still be appealed to the (British) Privy Council. (Federal cases had been refused appeal to the Privy Council since 1975.) Since then, the highest court of appeal has been the Australian High Court.
Betsy HP - Aug 06, 2003 10:04:42 am PDT #6218 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandelgesellschaft.
WHOA. What's the customary abbreviation?
billytea - Aug 06, 2003 10:06:01 am PDT #6219 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
WHOA. What's the customary abbreviation?
In polite company I refer to it as "the Brinkibon case". I've seen it appear as "Brinkibon v Stahag Stahl" on occasion too.
Fiona - Aug 06, 2003 10:08:53 am PDT #6220 of 9843
Stahlwarenhandelgesellschaft
Hey, it just means Steel Goods Trade Association. It's not that scary.
sarameg - Aug 06, 2003 10:22:50 am PDT #6221 of 9843
Brinkibon!brinkibon!brinkibon!
Er, sorry. It just has a nice unfamiliar bouncy ring to it.
Stahlwarenhandelgesellschaft! Stahlwarenhandelgesellschaft! Stahlwarenhandelgesellschaft!
just...doesn't