Uh Riiiight…
I would never have thought it, but I’m really enjoying Property & Equity Law this session. It’s a pretty analytical and technical subject with 1001 rules and technicalities, but it’s all practical. The history of the development of property law and land law is pretty interesting. Our lecturer is fantastic as well. (He co-wrote the textbook which is still waiting to go to press. We’ve had to download and print our readings from PDFs that Lexis has put up on their site. Which is less than ideal given that this comprises a couple hundred pages that we’re going to have to buy next month anyway.) Nonetheless I came across in the readings this week what has to be the most completely and utterly incomprehensible Statute I’ve ever read (granted it’s from the 16th Century):
Where any person or persons are, or shall be seised of any lands, tenements … or other hereditaments, to the use confidence or trust of any other person or persons or body politic these other person, persons or body politic that have the use, confidence or trust in fee simple, fee tail, for life or years, or for any estate in remainder or reverter, shall be seised of the like estate as they had in the use, confidence or trust, and the estate of the feoffees shall be in them that have the use for such estate as they formerly had in the use.
I could spend 10 minutes decrypting that mass of … whatever it is … but it’s just not worth it.
I think law textbooks should get with the times and start adding in diagrams to help visualise relationships between parties. Explaining complicated facts in one huge chunk of text just doesn’t cut it.
10:24pm (GMT +10.00) 
Woah. I have a friend doing that subject. She bombed out hardcore in the exam for it last weekend. I’ll tell her I know someone else, not only doing it, but enjoy it.
Salt in a wound :)
–WaD
Woah. I have a friend doing that subject. She bombed out hardcore in the exam for it last weekend. I’ll tell her I know someone else, not only doing it, but enjoying it.
Salt in a wound :)
–WaD
Yay the double post (1st post was missing 3 letters)
Don’t read too many old cases. Your mind will get disseised.
I think it’s obfuscated for a very good reason … if it were easy – anyone could do it! ;p The lawyers have to justify their existence somehow.