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=== Can you guess whose flesh I wore === | === Can you guess whose flesh I wore === | ||
I recall a friend of mine who works in a law office sending me a bit of some old legal document he found where a guy tried to sue Satan, blaming the evil one for his failures in business and life. The court apparently allowed it to proceed, but the case didn’t get past day one because Satan failed to appear in court. | <blockquote>I recall a friend of mine who works in a law office sending me a bit of some old legal document he found where a guy tried to sue Satan, blaming the evil one for his failures in business and life. The court apparently allowed it to proceed, but the case didn’t get past day one because Satan failed to appear in court.<br> | ||
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I did, in fact, appear in that courtroom on day one. | I did, in fact, appear in that courtroom on day one. | ||
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== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
Revision as of 05:34, 9 June 2020
Online diary of Karl Jones for Tuesday June 8, 2020.
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Ultra Vires
In the UK there is a legal concept of “Ultra Vires”. If it’s non-, sub- or super-human, or, non-., sub- or supernatural, it’s not relevant in a court of law. I thought that was the case in the USA as well.
—Fred_Cairns
Interesting, thanks.
Ultra Vires — “beyond man” — crimes by angels, for example.
But presumably a lesser class of crimes than “Acts of God”.
God is of course Ultra Vires in a logical sense, but we are speaking here of law and theology, not logic.
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Can you guess whose flesh I wore
I recall a friend of mine who works in a law office sending me a bit of some old legal document he found where a guy tried to sue Satan, blaming the evil one for his failures in business and life. The court apparently allowed it to proceed, but the case didn’t get past day one because Satan failed to appear in court.
—generic_name
I did, in fact, appear in that courtroom on day one.
Can you guess whose flesh I wore?
Forever, Satan
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