LL-L: "Language politics" LOWLANDS-L, 18.JUL.2000 (04) [E]

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Language politics

Sandy wrote:

>I now realise that English law not only applies in Scotland
and the USA, but out to the furthest reaches of the Galaxy and beyond!<

Can we have a quote to support this? I can't believe that a brief work would
devote much space to this idea so I guess it would be expressed fairly
concisely.

The English Common Law applies in the USA, of course, at least in states
whose legal systems are not based on Spanish law. They nevertheless have the
right to repeal bits of it they don't like. Apparently the Deadman's Statute
(the last remnant of the principle that a person may not testify in relation
to something in which he has an interest, including his own innocence;
apparently even the wrath of God was not considered sufficient to deter
perjury in such a case) is being given the chop all over.

There are, of course, cases where national states and their heads make
historic claims which are of little relevance nowadays. I believe the King
of Sweden is still "King of the Goths and Wends".

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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