The League of Rogue Barristers - Chicago Chapter

Legal Term of the Week (TM)

In honor of the recent drought of posts:

Laches -- 1. Unreasonable delay or negligence in pursuing a right or claim--almost always an equitable one--in a way that prejudices the party against whom relief is sought.  2. The equitable doctrine by which a court denies relief to a claimant who has unreasonably delayed or been negligent in asserting the claim, which that delay or negligence has prejudiced the party against whom relief is sought.

(This week's term is courtesy of Black's Law Dictionary.)

Legal Term of the Week (TM)

Inure -- 1. To take effect; to come into use.  2. To make accustomed to something unpleasant; to habituate.

This week's term is courtesy of Black's Law Dictionary.

Legal Term of the Week (TM)

quiet enjoyment--the right to enjoy and use premises (particularly a residence) in peace and without interference. Quiet enjoyment is often a condition included in a lease. Thus, if the landlord interferes with quiet enjoyment, he/she may be sued for breach of contract. Disturbance of quiet enjoyment by another can be a "nuisance" for which a lawsuit may be brought to halt the interference or obtain damages for it.




This week's term is courtesy of Law.com.

The REAL Legal Term of the Week (TM)

Do not be fooled by imitations.  Trust only the Legal Term of the Week (TM) from Jurisconsultus.

Quia timet -- A legal doctrine that allows a person to seek equitable relief from future probable harm to a specific right or interest.

This week's term is courtesy of Black's Law Dictionary.

Legal Term of the Week: Often Imitated; Never Duplicated (TM)

Legal Term of the Week

After a smashing debut and a successful tour of Scandinavia and Sub-Continent, I give you the return of "Legal Term of the Week."

Danger-invites-rescue doctrine - The principle holding a defendant liable not only for injuries to the person that the defendant has imperiled, but also for injuries that a third person receives while trying to rescue the imperiled person.

(This week's term is courtesy of Black's Law Dictionary.)

Happily Ever After...

For some reason we here at LORB love us the animal sex stories:

Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.

The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.

"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.

(Courtesy of BBC News: original link here)

The Adventures of Quo Vadis

As readers very well know, we here at the League of Rogue Barristers, Chicago Chapter, have been trying to discover what happened to our colleague, Quo Vadis.  After several leads dried up, including a bogus message from the Witchita Chapter stating that he had shown up, took over their chapter and was planning to secede from Kansas, we were suprised to encounter an eyewitness.

Leonard P. Hogthistle of Des Plaines called us up to pass along an event he witnessed not more than 12 days ago:

"I was sittin' on ma poach, as I always do when the weather getz ah little crispy, when I saw yo 'Quo Vadis' a-runnin' down ma street.  Theyaaa was several things that caught ma attention in this heeyaa matta.  Number one, it was a-colda than a witches' titty out theyaa.  Number two, it was about 6 o'clock in tha a.m.  And a-number three, he was a-wearin' a big green outfit, kinda looked like a cabbage.  In fact, iffin' ma recollection serves me correctly, it was a cabbage costume, a-yep.  It was then that I refocused ma attention on a-what was a-chasin' him."

(to be continued...)