Bill of Rights contest 1490Thank you for visiting soc.culture.scottish in pursuit of education. Today's (Dec 10th 05) poetic gem is Mcgonagall's An Address to the New Tay Bridge BEAUTIFUL new railway bridge of the Silvery Tay, With your...
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:43:50 +0000 (UTC), Brimstone was popularly supposed to have said:
Years and years ago, from the early Victorian period onwards on the beaches of the south coast in the main, local councils were wont to impose many diverse by-laws on what could or could not be done on the beaches. Many weighty tomes were composed and imposed as law, and many people got fined under these laws.
Until one day someone looked at the actual legal position of these widespread laws. Turned out that beaches between high and low tide mark are property of the Crown; local councils have absolutely no juresdiction on beaches.
Hey presto, in one case decades of laws and cases straight out of the window; the makers of the laws lacked juresdiction over the area they were trying to legislate over, so the laws were to be ignored.
Bill of Rights contest 1489It can't be worse than McGonagall A Humble injectione Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for...
Just because someone has made a law or composed an official body doesn't automatically make it legal, or sane, or sensible.
Whole organisations that were set up in the optimistic notion that the Regional buttemblies would get through on the nod still exist, yet according to their own rules should not exist.
Bill of Rights contest 1491Thank you for visiting soc.culture.scottish in pursuit of education. Today's (Dec 10th 05) poetic gem is Mcgonagall's An Address to the New Tay Bridge...
This sort of thing happens, and it happens altogether too much. This man, for all that he's a bit of a green ink merchant, should be applauded for standing up for age-old rights.
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