[Vwoolf] The Ramsays in Skye - owning or renting?

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Your father could have replied: “’De minimis not curat lex’, as the judge said, quashing the conviction of a dwarf for indecent exposure.”

(Old non-PC legal joke, encouraged in the 1950s.)

Stuart

From: Jeremy Hawthorn 
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:05 PM
To: Stuart N. Clarke ; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] The Ramsays in Skye - owning or renting?

On 15.07.2020 16:44, Stuart N. Clarke wrote:


  Another 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. 



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.

Jeremy H

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