English law on presumed undue influence is strange. This is the doctrine whereby if you're in a particular sort of relationship with someone with power or influence over you (say, a solicitor and client, parent and child, or priest and parishioner) and make a particularly noteworthy transaction with them (a contract, or a gift, say), they have to show you've had the opportunity to make your own mind up. (Or the courts can undo the contract, gift, whatever.)
If you're not in one of the special categories, the same thing applies but first you need to show that there's a relationship of "trust and confidence" between you. Fine.
What gets weird is that husband and wife is not one of the special categories. For a wife to claim her husband unduly influenced her she has to show there's a relationship of "trust and confidence" with her husband with respect to financial matters.
What's weirder is that being fiancés is. The law protects the fiancé as automatically vulnerable, and then as soon as the marriage vows are said the relationship's
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English law on presumed undue influence is strange. This is the doctrine whereby if you're in a particular sort of relationship with someone with power or influence over you (say, a solicitor and client, parent and child, or priest and parishioner) and make a particularly noteworthy transaction with them (a contract, or a gift, say), they have to show you've had the opportunity to make your own mind up. (Or the courts can undo the contract, gift, whatever.)
If you're not in one of the special categories, the same thing applies but first you need to show that there's a relationship of "trust and confidence" between you. Fine.
What gets weird is that husband and wife is not one of the special categories. For a wife to claim her husband unduly influenced her she has to show there's a relationship of "trust and confidence" with her husband with respect to financial matters.
What's weirder is that being fiancés is. The law protects the fiancé as automatically vulnerable, and then as soon as the marriage vows are said the relationship's protection becomes conditional.
Strange the way anti-hype works just like hype. From the results I've seen,
DeepSeek's answers are far worse than, say ChatGPTs. They're much vaguer and more rambling, often largely unrelated to the question asked. Not only do they read like an undergrad essay, they read like the student was drunk.
Also, when there are export restrictions on stuff you're buying from another country and you report that you came in just under the magic number, well, surprise, surprise.
Sure, there's no reason Chinese researchers couldn't do this stuff just as well as the US or better. And, yeah, the AI bubble bursting is a real popcorn moment for us all, all the same.
"Despite the idolatrous panegyrics to Equity’s feminist vigour, she remains, at best, a superficial feminist." Bloody hell someone swallowed the poetry pill before writing this law paper...
I do not know the weather there, Whether there's mist or fog Or a driving rain you can barely move through Or snow piled deep at the door. Warm refuge or cold trap, or Just another thing, put the tea on, shrug? I blink the lamp, light the fire, wave the flags, wait For a whether worn woman in an uncharted state.
I had a friend once who said working gastro is a lot like working in a sexshop. There are a lot of things that make you think "this is genious" and "this is fucked up" at the same time 😂
This is a bit of a crawling horror. If you're like me and use a different email address for every website you create an account on (so you can ditch the leakers) you won't ever be able to verify your age. verifymy.io/age-verification-a…
I wonder whether the "online fingerprint" they talk about is entirely in accordance with the data protection policies of other sites I've provided data.
I also wonder whether it's discrimination against trans people on the grounds of gender reassignment, since we are more likely to have changed our name and email address, and may thus not be able to prove our age.
If you can get swans to trust you enough, usually through food-based bribery, they will let you stroke their necks. They are wonderfully soft and stroky.
This is fascinating. The Arabic words for minute (as in 1/60 hr) and second (as in 1/60 min) are the same as the words for minute (as in very small) and second (ordinal number 2). And English, it seems, got it from the Arabs via Medieval Latin.
Same in Hebrew, unsurprisingly I suppose. דק/דקה and שני/שניה, which are cognate to the Arabic words. I'm not sure whether Hebrew got it from Arabic or whether they both got it from common Semitic roots, though.
@Colin Watson The suggestion from that Wikipedia article (which I’ve not researched further so may be total bobbins) is that it’s from the flourishing of science in the Islamic world, although that’s a world that’s always had Jews in so 🤷♀️
I can easily believe it's of Arabic origin due to sheer numbers of mediaeval scientists. Just wondered, as Wiktionary's etymology wasn't clear either way
@Juliet E McKenna Probably didn't have to cope with OU word limits! (Just took a quick look at In Verrem. Quite pleased to find that I can still make out a fair bit of it in spite of my last properly using Latin three decades ago!)
It is more than a single sentence, much, much more. It is a gateway to another world: an abstract world of symbols and relationships. It is a single thread of Inrda's net, interfused with reflecting jewels, containing within it ripples of the whole history of symbolic thought.
Nay! [always a good word in situations like this]. Verily! [even better] I put it to you, [forgot this was a law assignment for a moment] your worships and honours, taking into account the principle of totality [adjusts headgear] that indeed, no sentence can ever be singular.
Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
Great thread, and I am sure it is even better in the book, which I am definitely looking forward to. But, as we used to say elsewhere, couldn't this (also) be a blog post, the better to share with people who aren't here.
@davidsegarra More of the book is about the mythmaking of the Renaissance later, so 19th century things, modern historians, about why they claim the Renaissance was the first period to copy the classics and thus erased people like Al Andalus. So while I don't talk about the specific people they erased as much as those who did the erasing, the ideas are in there.
@lispi314 300 years of monarchy, first under local conquerors, then, when they died out, under the Hapsburg overlords, then the unification of Italy in the 1800s. When the unification armies came and drove out the Hapsburg governors, Florence re-established the republic finding the descendants of the last men who had been in the ruling council of the last republic, and had them gather as a new senate to vote to join the nation of Italy.
Interesting observation. When talking one-to-one to a woman I don't know well my brain flips into the before-transition mode, where I'm hyper-aware I pose a threat.
I seem to remember there was somewhere off the coast of Norfolk or Suffolk at some point where new mothers went to register their births as it was unparished, so they didn't have to acknowledge the father. The memory is a bit of a muddle, but I can't find any reference to it.
The wonderful folk over at @trans_rescue@mastodon.social have been working their butts off with a very limited budget to help get trans folk out of dangerous places.
I've pulled together a collection of my stories. These were first written on twitter, some I've reposted here over the years but this is the first time a collection of them has been available.
If you want to acquire a copy of this collection all you have to do is send me proof of a £5 or more donation to Trans Rescue in a DM. (Please for the love of all that is holy redact any bank details) and I'll send you a link to the file with 60 stories and more than one hundred pages of kinky smut.
Note: trans rescue have nothing to do with this, do not hassle them about it, I'm doing this entirely on my own and if they ask me to stop I will.
yeah, guess it just mails them out. forgive our clanky donation system. our web dev is done by volunteers who are awesome, but are working in their spare time.
Feeling proud of myself. I contacted a therapist who should be able to help me with my fun new anxiety issues, and also started some work on them on my own, of which I may say more at a later date.
So you're speaking a sentence in Portuguese, are you? Well you have 0.5 seconds to decide between a subordinating conjunction or a preposition/naked adjective, AND IT WILL DETERMINE THE COURSE OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
Weird anxiety episode day 3. Seems to be receding somewhat. Heart pounding and adrenaline rushes keep happening a bit but maybe less severely? Got sleep in a couple of three hour batches from what I remember. Have attempted to contact a therapist to process some of this.
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Sometimes we sleep, or may as well. The world of possibilities that contains and is contained by a day too much and too overwhelming to be but observed slowly through a fog. What shall I do today? Toss a coin.
Sometimes we remember, or remember feeling. To fetch from the vaults of memory is to remember afresh, and to remember afresh to feel afresh. To feel afresh is to reason afresh and it is all still true: this is still was still am still me I, feeling. But nevertheless afresh.
Sometimes we reach out. So fortunate I, who can be held without holding and still feel the warmth. Waves over waves.
Bit sad not to be able to join in the general trans Dorley Hall love-in but I read maybe 300 pages and the non-consensual and imprisonment aspects of it seem to trigger a lot of anxiety, so it's perhaps not the book for me. And that's OK.
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"however, the truth was much stranger than reality".
I have questions!
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