Random stuff you learn
Every week, without fail, i learn something new at prop tutorial, which has absolutely nothing to do with law.
For example, i now know that ‘ten‘, as in tendril means ‘to hold’. So a tenant simply means ‘one who holds’.
“ius accrescendi inter mercatores locum non habet” means “the right of survivorship has no place among merchants”, a reference to the presumption in equity that partners do not hold the partnership property as joint tenants.
Today, i learnt that the longest running ‘temporary law’ that is anything but temporary was enacted during the napoleanic era. That law was the ‘income tax’, which was introduced as a temporary measure to help fight napolean. Apparently, we’re still fighting.
