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Wouldn't that in itself be enough to bury the case even if all the dictionaries of the land agreed that biannual means twice per year?
If there was a clear shared understanding of what the parties were agreeing to, confirmed by 20 years of practice, then should it even matter that the wording of the contract says something different according to common English usage?
(Your cousing lawyer seems to think so, but you say he's a bit pompous so maybe he's too focused on showing off or something.)
EDIT: Actually, shouldn't the uncle be suing the guy he bought the land from? Presumably, he was the one who agreed with your uncle that buying the land will involve the transfer of rights and obligations of the easement agreement so he was the one who misled the buyer about the terms of that agreement and who could've benefitted from that by having the buyer agree to a higher price under the assumption that there's an extra $7500 of revenue attached to the thing over the next 10 years.
I hope one of the Motte's resident lawyers comes and explains how all of this is wrong and my notions of common sense don't apply.
Hmm, the first linked thing dug up an article from a real local Bri'ish newspaper dated something 2010 about the guy's intention to do the marathon thing.
I fed the url of that to the Wayback Machine and the first snapshot is from, like, three days ago, which is suspicious.
But then, I don't know what' the Internet Archive's policy for which pages they snapshot and it seems, uh, implausible that some random irrelevant publication would falsify their records to stick it to the chuds.
But then the article has a quote: "He will be setting off on Monday, July 19, and is aiming to complete each marathon in less than six hours." Which means he'd be running them at a rather casual jogging pace. Maybe doing ~40 km per day like that isn't some kind of implausible superhuman achievement.
But the leg fracture thing still sounds like bullshit.
And the article also has this amazing quote in it:
To prepare for the race Mr Arday, who is also studying for a master’s degree in physical education, has been training hard for five months, running 12 miles a day from 4am to 6am and 10pm until midnight, fitting in a strict routine around his teaching and studying.
Yeah, I think gettting less than 4 hours of sleep per day while running a daily marathon split into two parts for several months would be an implausibly superhuman achievement.
So perhaps some of Arday's claims weren't completely made up, but significantly embellished.
(And none of this matters with regards to the plagiarism accusations and the fact that he got kicked out which probably wouldn't have happened if there wasn't a there there.)
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If not, who do you propose we should charge for Arday's death, if someone else is responsible? Maybe the writers at the Guardian or the Telegraph.
Who's proposing to charge anybody for Arday's suicide?
It's good to distinguish between what's good and what's legal with the understanding that law can never completely account for the complexity of moral judgement. There are bad behaviors that perhaps should never be made illegal, but that doesn't mean we can't still consider them bad.
How can one go from acknowledging enormity of the thing to being better prepared for being economically replaced by machines or rendered incapable of keeping track of accelerating reality?
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