One day in Contract Law class, Professor Jepson asked one of his better students, "Now if you were to give someone an orange, how would you go about it?"
The student replied, "Here's an orange."
The professor was livid. "No! No! Think like a lawyer!" The student then recited, "Okay, I'd tell him, 'I hereby give and convey to you all and singular, my estate and interests, rights, claim, title, calim and advantages of and in, said orange, together with all its rind, juice, pulp, and seeds, and all rights and advantages with full power to bite, cut, freeze and otherwise eat, the same, or give the same away with and without the pulp, juice, rind and seeds, anything herein before or hereinafter or in any deed, or deeds, instruments of whatever nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding..."
And does anyone wonder why nothing can get done without a bunch of gobble-d-goop that is then reinterpreted as another SOPHISTICATED A-HOLE wants. And he will add his gobble-d-goop and in the end the student still has the orange and no one has orange juice for breakfast (but not limited to nor withstanding to various options of ordering in, sending out, and buying a bag of oranges and drink). God bless the black and white of the law.
Love that, the law according to ....whomever changes whatever, and whenever .... can we say twist and twist again.
John J. Sexton said:
And does anyone wonder why nothing can get done without a bunch of gobble-d-goop that is then reinterpreted as another SOPHISTICATED A-HOLE wants. And he will add his gobble-d-goop and in the end the student still has the orange and no one has orange juice for breakfast (but not limited to nor withstanding to various options of ordering in, sending out, and buying a bag of oranges and drink). God bless the black and white of the law.