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Monty Python comes to my Property class
Oct. 31st, 2003 01:46 pmOur prof said a while ago that he loves the golden oldies "finders" cases because they're all "straight out of Mary Poppins" - chimney sweeps who find broaches in chimneys, scullery maids who find lockets in the pantry, etc etc. (hee. I typo'd "scullery" as "scully" on the first pass).
So now we're doing real property (land). Our text starts with a couple of quotes:
Let me speak first of those fields where there can be no progress without history. I think the law of real property supplies the readiest example. (Benjamin Cardozo)
"... law of land in countries under the Common Law of England is a 'rubbish heap with has been accumulating for hundreds of of years'." (Justice Riddell)
The first paragraph after the quotes starts, "The relevant rubbish from the rubbish heap of history is as follows:"
And then we enter the land of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I swear I kept hearing Michael Palin's Peasant going on about his anarcho-syndicalist collective to King Arthur as I was reading. It was the only thing that kept me relatively sane.
I love history. But reading this crap was dry as toast. And hearing our prof talk about it today was even worse. In part because he's got laryngitis, so his normally dynamic lecture style was quite muted. But also because... you just can't make a discussion of the common law rules governing the creation of estates in fee simple in the province of Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1792 anything but soporific as warm milk to a cat in a sun-drenched down comforter.
So. On the agenda today: ( mind-blowing boredom )
So now we're doing real property (land). Our text starts with a couple of quotes:
Let me speak first of those fields where there can be no progress without history. I think the law of real property supplies the readiest example. (Benjamin Cardozo)
"... law of land in countries under the Common Law of England is a 'rubbish heap with has been accumulating for hundreds of of years'." (Justice Riddell)
The first paragraph after the quotes starts, "The relevant rubbish from the rubbish heap of history is as follows:"
And then we enter the land of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I swear I kept hearing Michael Palin's Peasant going on about his anarcho-syndicalist collective to King Arthur as I was reading. It was the only thing that kept me relatively sane.
I love history. But reading this crap was dry as toast. And hearing our prof talk about it today was even worse. In part because he's got laryngitis, so his normally dynamic lecture style was quite muted. But also because... you just can't make a discussion of the common law rules governing the creation of estates in fee simple in the province of Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1792 anything but soporific as warm milk to a cat in a sun-drenched down comforter.
So. On the agenda today: ( mind-blowing boredom )
