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<DIV>Your father could have replied: “’De minimis not curat lex’, as the judge
said, quashing the conviction of a dwarf for indecent exposure.”</DIV>
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<DIV>(Old non-PC legal joke, encouraged in the 1950s.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no>Jeremy Hawthorn</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:05 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com>Stuart N. Clarke</A> ;
<A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] The Ramsays in Skye - owning or
renting?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>On 15.07.2020 16:44, Stuart N. Clarke wrote:<BR></P>
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group to steer clear of – if I may generalise – is that of retired solicitors:
time on their hands and a lot of legal knowledge, plus an intimate knowledge
of the leasehold restrictions, can make life awkward for those committing the
least infringement. <BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>In the 1950s our family lived in a semi-detached house. My parents had a
small shed built on the property. Our next-door neighbour was a retired
solicitor's (i.e. lawyer's) clerk. He determined that the shed projected one
inch on to his property, and sent my father a legal agreement in quadruplicate
in which my father agreed to lease what must have been about a square foot of
land from him at a peppercorn rent. My father took great pleasure in the
neighbour's disappointment when he got the builder back to shift the shed an
inch into out land. "Spoiled his fun," he remarked with a look of smug
satisfaction on his face.</P>
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