Miscellaneous
I rarely offer my readers a handsome book prize, chiefly because handsome books one dares not dream of parting with; nevertheless, a handsome copy in calf of my own treatise on 'Cockburn's Geared Turbine' I will gladly send to the first reader who sends me the context of the poem in which this rather pidgin phrase occurs:
'. . . his Laodamia it comes.'
Absolutely no chorus pawn dents can be entered into, nor will proof of postage be accepted as proof of delivery. Onus of proof is on plaintiff, though it is not contended that this dictum can operate to suspend the rule of law. In Rex v. Beachborough Sea Fisheries' Corporation it was contended that defendants were estopped from salvage by trover by reason of non-user of certain jetties, landing stages, slips, causeways, salting-sheds and brine-tubs formerly held under license from a board not being a harbour board, a board of trustees constituted for the purpose of inland navigation, or a board charged with conserving maritime fisheries: held by Palles C.B. that there had been suspensory user in fructu and that no escheat or reversionanary lapse subsisted by mere reason of effluxion of time, time not being of the essense of the contract, and that the charging order set forth in the third schedule of the Order in Council was properly charged. He quashed the conviction and allowed all parties their costs out of the estate. Continuing, the Chief Baron said:
'Not only must justice be done but it must be seen to be done. It is immediately plain that the Antrim County Council, being a road authority withing the meaning of the Grand Jury Acts, the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 (read with the Application of Enactments Order 1898), is not statutorily charged with the maintenance of sea-lanes. Plaintiffs therefore must fail.'
Eh? What am I saying?
Sorry - I pressed the wrong button. It was poetry I was meant to talk about.
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That was our last extract from Myles na gCopaleen's 'Cruiskeen Lawn'
columns in the Irish Times as collected in The Best of Myles (Introduction)
Brian O'Nolan, a.k.a.Flann
O'Brien, a.k.a. Myles na gCopaleen, was born on October 5th, 1911.
He would have been 94 today.
The poetry context challenge still holds. Prize: one handsome, mint signed first edition of Julian Barnes' Booker-nominated Arthur & George. Entries, including name and address, to competition@shorttermmemoryloss.com
Include a tiebreaker of your own imaginings.
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'. . . his Laodamia it comes.'
Absolutely no chorus pawn dents can be entered into, nor will proof of postage be accepted as proof of delivery. Onus of proof is on plaintiff, though it is not contended that this dictum can operate to suspend the rule of law. In Rex v. Beachborough Sea Fisheries' Corporation it was contended that defendants were estopped from salvage by trover by reason of non-user of certain jetties, landing stages, slips, causeways, salting-sheds and brine-tubs formerly held under license from a board not being a harbour board, a board of trustees constituted for the purpose of inland navigation, or a board charged with conserving maritime fisheries: held by Palles C.B. that there had been suspensory user in fructu and that no escheat or reversionanary lapse subsisted by mere reason of effluxion of time, time not being of the essense of the contract, and that the charging order set forth in the third schedule of the Order in Council was properly charged. He quashed the conviction and allowed all parties their costs out of the estate. Continuing, the Chief Baron said:
'Not only must justice be done but it must be seen to be done. It is immediately plain that the Antrim County Council, being a road authority withing the meaning of the Grand Jury Acts, the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 (read with the Application of Enactments Order 1898), is not statutorily charged with the maintenance of sea-lanes. Plaintiffs therefore must fail.'
Eh? What am I saying?
Sorry - I pressed the wrong button. It was poetry I was meant to talk about.
That was our last extract from Myles na gCopaleen's 'Cruiskeen Lawn'
columns in the Irish Times as collected in The Best of Myles (Introduction)
Brian O'Nolan, a.k.a.Flann
O'Brien, a.k.a. Myles na gCopaleen, was born on October 5th, 1911.
He would have been 94 today.
The poetry context challenge still holds. Prize: one handsome, mint signed first edition of Julian Barnes' Booker-nominated Arthur & George. Entries, including name and address, to competition@shorttermmemoryloss.com
Include a tiebreaker of your own imaginings.
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