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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Fetal Rights of Inheritance
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.042331.13007@eff.org>
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- References: <1993Jan22.211145.24668@midway.uchic <1993Jan23.223910.20003@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan26.012347.8703@rlgvax.Reston.ICL.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:23:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.012347.8703@rlgvax.Reston.ICL.COM> scc@rlgvax.Reston.ICL.COM (Stephen Carlson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan23.223910.20003@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dpollard@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dennis B Pollard) writes:
- >>Ah, Mr. Frank brings back my favorite law school subject. Actually, I enjoyed
- >>the Rule Against Perpetuities, abolished by statute in CA, because the CA
- >>Legislature thought that it was too difficult to learn.
- >
- >Abolished by statute? I thought instead that there was a California Supreme
- >Court case which ruled that a lawyer who botched the RAP was not negligent.
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- You have it right, Stephen.
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- >In Lucas v. Hamm, 364 P.2d 685 (Cal. 1961)....
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- It stands as support of the reasoning in Lucas v. Hamm that Dennis Pollard
- went to law school and came away with the conclusion that California had
- abolished the RAP by statute. If he can do that, then who can reasonably
- expect a lawyer to get the Rule Against Perpetuities right?
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- --Mike
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