Did You Go To Law School?

[sterngard friegen]

DID YOU GO TO LAW SCHOOL?

It is the purpose of this test to determine if you went to at least one year of law school. If you can answer 80% of these otherwise obscure questions, then you did.

1. What is the famous number central to The Law Against Perpetuities?

2. What is that famous number related to?

3. What product or service was provided by the company sued in Palsgraf?

4. What three word Latin expression arose from a falling barrel of flour?

5. What legal concept does International Shoe discuss?

6. Who was M’Naghten?

7. Multiple choice: What is a deodand?

a. The period of time in which to act as extended by a holiday.
b. The space in a courtroom occupied by the clerk.
c. An object causing death forfeited to the Crown.
d. An important decision creating a new legal principle.

8. What area of law did seisin and feoffment relate to?

9. What part of a courtroom must you never enter without permission?

10. What area of law deals with detrimental reliance?

(My guess is Orly Taitz would score 0 on this test.)

Why doesn't this work? :sterngard:

[Maybenaut]

DID YOU GO TO LAW SCHOOL?

It is the purpose of this test to determine if you went to at least one year of law school. If you can answer 80% of these otherwise obscure questions, then you did.

1. What is the famous number central to The Law Against Perpetuities?

2. What is that famous number related to?

3. What product or service was provided by the company sued in Palsgraf?

4. What three word Latin expression arose from a falling barrel of flour?

5. What legal concept does International Shoe discuss?

6. Who was M’Naghten?

7. Multiple choice: What is a deodand?

a. The period of time in which to act as extended by a holiday.
b. The space in a courtroom occupied by the clerk.
c. An object causing death forfeited to the Crown.
d. An important decision creating a new legal principle.

8. What area of law did seisin and feoffment relate to?

9. What part of a courtroom must you never enter without permission?

10. What area of law deals with detrimental reliance?

(My guess is Orly Taitz would score 0 on this test.)

Why doesn't this work? :sterngard:

The only one I can’t answer without resort to Google is #7.

All the rest I know off the top of my head.

[sterngard friegen]

If you respond, be sure to hide your answers. The fewer words to answer the better. No. 7 is the hard one; thus the multiple choice.

[Phoenix520]

I got three (including 7!) right without looking. Am I a legal secretary??

[bob]

To be some jerk, a bonus question:

"Do you recall the U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland?"

[SuzieC]

We didn't get deodand in law school, but I knew the others including Bob's question.

[somerset]

We didn't get deodand in law school, but I knew the others including Bob's question.

Keep in mind that graduates of class drafted the Magna Carta

[p0rtia]

I got three (including 7!) right without looking. Am I a legal secretary??

Also three! But not #7. Enfeoff is one of my favorite words, so I lucked out on that one.

[chancery]

Chestnuts, all of them. It seems to me that I might have known what a deodand was even before going to law school, but there's no way for me to be sure, since I took a relevant course.

Any extra credit for having held the article in question in MacPherson? My law school has one in one of the library stairwells, next to our Holy Grail ("It's very nice-a").

[sterngard friegen]

Answers for the non lawyers:

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1. 21
2. Years (after death of a measuring life)
3. Transportation
4. Res ipsa loquitur
5. Personal jurisdiction
6. Insane murder defendant
7. c.
8. Real estate
9. The well
10. Contracts

[Slarti the White]

We didn't get deodand in law school, but I knew the others including Bob's question.

Keep in mind that graduates of class drafted the Magna Carta

Not true! Graduates of Stern's ( ) class were responsible for drafting Hammurabi's code.

I'm proud to say that I, like Orly Taitz, would have scored a 0 (75% chance) or a 1 (25% chance) on this test, entirely appropriate for someone who has had 0 years of law school. I have, however, been acting legal secretary in City of East Lansing v Slarti, a case in which there is a hearing tomorrow (just finished going over prep for testifying in the hearing with my lawyer earlier today).

[Slim Cognito]

Sadly, staying at a Holiday Inn last night didn't help me squat.

[neonzx]

I scored a big fat 0 zero on this test. Although it does remind me that I might have chosen a different path -- but even if I had gone to law school, I don't think I would have practiced as a life career. HOWEVER, I do know that degree looks good on a CV,

[SuzieC]

Now that the answers have been revealed, I have no idea why we would have needed to know in American law schools the term for property forfeited to the Crown. WTF?

But hilarious.

[Greatgrey]

I scored a big fat 0 zero on this test. Although it does remind me that I might have chosen a different path -- but even if I had gone to law school, I don't think I would have practiced as a life career. HOWEVER, I do know that degree looks good on a CV,

What, a zero? From Obama’s lawyer who lived in the WH basement?

Unpossible


I got bupkus as well.

[Reddog]

I scored a big fat 0 zero on this test. Although it does remind me that I might have chosen a different path -- but even if I had gone to law school, I don't think I would have practiced as a life career. HOWEVER, I do know that degree looks good on a CV,

I expected to score a zero, and be the Control Subject.
Amazingly I did get one right, but wasn’t positive about the followup for it.
To be fair I didn’t know before last week, delving into the Reedy Creek/Disney maneuver.

Number 9 is problematic. Looking at the answer, I don’t know what that is either, I wouldn’t know if I was about to enter it.

Thank you Stern.

[northland10]

OMG, I got 2 (one was a bit shaky). I am a little annoyed I did not get another one but I am really tired this week so there is that.

IANAL so most of my knowledge is from here or sometimes, a little reading of various opinions and such not covered here (I have weird hobbies).

[jcolvin2]

I was not able to answer either 7 or 9 without outside aid.

[sugar magnolia]

Holy shit! I got 4 that I was sure of and a couple I guessed at and got right.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

IAAL and recognized the names in the questions, but couldn't remember numbers. (Not unusual for me). Because of fatigue from a migraine I relied upon the Sherlock Holmes Rule: If I can look it up, I don't have to remember it.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cul ... 180949567/

The Secrets of Sherlock’s Mind Palace
The BBC/Masterpiece sleuth employs a memory technique invented by the ancient Greeks

“I consider that a [wo]man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose,” Holmes tells John Watson in A Study in Scarlet, the first of Conan Doyle’s tales about the detective. Holmes is careful to fill his brain attic with only memories that may be useful, such as cases from the past. To make room for what was truly needed, Holmes tossed the rest out – even deeming unimportant the fact that the Earth circles the Sun. Watson, in contrast, has a brain attic more like the rest of us, jumbled with memories both valuable and inane, with none specifically selected for storage based on their potential future worth.

[bill_g]

The greatest lesson of any college course is where to look it up.

[noblepa]

Number 9 is problematic. Looking at the answer, I don’t know what that is either, I wouldn’t know if I was about to enter it.

Thank you Stern.

IANAL, but I believe that the well refers to the area immediately in front of the judge's bench. That's why, in every TV lawyer show, one or both of the attorneys will ask "may we approach the bench?".

[Gregg]

I got them all!
Thanks to NKU Chase School of Law!

[humblescribe]

I got four.

But I gotta state that question number four was poorly written. (Ducking for cover.)

That Latin phrase was first attributed to Cicero in days of yore in a Roman murder trial. No flour was involved in the crime.

However, in the Nineteenth Century, an English tort case of Byrne v. Boadle counsel lifted Cicero's locution in argument. Transposition of ipsa and loquitur is irrelevant, as the meaning holds.

At least that is what that highly regarded legal reference site called Wikipedia says.

To my way of thinking, attribution belongs to the earliest known reference, not necessarily to a later reference that gets much more publicity due to things like printing presses and other means of dispersal. And since they were both in the legal arena it is even more appropriate. If we can go back to the Twelfth Century for deodand, what is another 1,200 years to include the Romans?

[neonzx]

I got them all!
Thanks to NKU Chase School of Law!

Kentucky has a law school? Who would have thunk. Good job!