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Originally Posted by Notorial dissent
In real world terms, this is called trespassing and theft, and will get you some serious jail time.
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In real world terms this is called adverse possession and occurs frequently. Truly, a capitalist would understand adverse possession. I would not expect a practicing communist to have a clue as they tend to believe all property vests in the state (hardly alloidal).
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Gross and ignorant to the end I see.
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A discussion of your better attributes might best be held later.
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In the first place, “during times past” anything of major importance was put down onto velum, not paper
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More important thoughts tended to be recorded in stone.
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Benefit of Clergy was literally that, did not apply to scholars, but to clergy, and was the right to be tried in ecclesiastical not civil courts.
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and in rebuttal
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Originally Posted by Blackstone
ORIGINALLY the law was held, that no man fhould be admitted to the privilege of clergy, but fuch as had the habitum et tonfuram clericaleme. But in procefs of time a much wider and more comprehenfive criterion was eftablifhed: every one that could read (a mark of great learning in thofe days of ignorance and her fifter fuperftition) being accounted a clerk or clericus, and allowed the benefit of clerkfhip, though neither initiated in holy orders, nor trimmed with the clerical tonfure.
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you must be thinking that all lords and peers of the realm have connections with the church as well
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Again, all lords of parliament and peers of the realm, by the ftatute 1 Edw. VI. c. 12. fhall be difcharged in all clergyable and other felonies, provided for by the act, without any burning in the hand, in the fame manner, as real clerks convict: but this is only for the firft offence.
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And somehow I don't believe the common law courts would defer any punishment to ecclesiastical courts
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Laftly, all the commons of the realm, not in orders, whether male or female l, fhall for the firft offence be difcharged of the punifhment for felonies, within the benefit of clergy; upon being burnt in the hand, imprifoned for a year, or lefs; or, in cafe of larceny, being tranfported for feven years, if the court fhall thing proper.
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The idea behind placing a burn mark on the hand was that one got out of a crime based on benefit of clergy one time only. The second time the crime was committed you couldn't even raise the claim.
