by scorch- » Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:04 am
Sears wrote:scorch- wrote:Sears wrote:Did you figure out perpetuities yet?
Perpetuities is some basic shit bro. 1L come on
I know. Have you ever seen "
A lawyer walks into a Bar" ?
At one point they ask all the people they've been following in the movie about perpetuities and none of them can answer, and I'm like wtf they found a bunch of retards, fail movie.
Well, the rule of/against perpetuities isn't even law. No one remembers it because it's some pointless shit they teach you as a 1L because it explains some social/ecomonic factors courts use to assess new cases. If you asked me to explain it today, all I could tell you is that it's bad for people owning property now to be able to decide what is done with the property when they no longer own it, so generally courts will invalidate contracts and provisions that provide for that (I think the rule itself only applied to wills, but I can't remember). In the class, you had to learn all the ins and outs of cases and hypotheticals like the septagenarian cunt or whatever it was called. Basically, it was a waste of my time and (lots of) money same as pretty much everything else in law school.
e: never seen the movie. worth a watch?
[quote="Sears"][quote="scorch-"][quote="Sears"]Did you figure out perpetuities yet?[/quote]
Perpetuities is some basic shit bro. 1L come on[/quote]
I know. Have you ever seen "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lawyer_Walks_Into_A_Bar]A lawyer walks into a Bar[/url]" ?
At one point they ask all the people they've been following in the movie about perpetuities and none of them can answer, and I'm like wtf they found a bunch of retards, fail movie.[/quote]
Well, the rule of/against perpetuities isn't even law. No one remembers it because it's some pointless shit they teach you as a 1L because it explains some social/ecomonic factors courts use to assess new cases. If you asked me to explain it today, all I could tell you is that it's bad for people owning property now to be able to decide what is done with the property when they no longer own it, so generally courts will invalidate contracts and provisions that provide for that (I think the rule itself only applied to wills, but I can't remember). In the class, you had to learn all the ins and outs of cases and hypotheticals like the septagenarian cunt or whatever it was called. Basically, it was a waste of my time and (lots of) money same as pretty much everything else in law school.
e: never seen the movie. worth a watch?