Entries Tagged as ‘In Personam Jurisdiction’

October 13, 2008

The Power to Define and “this state”

For most of a year, I’ve been saying that the words are the “law of the law”. That is, I’ve realized that a intent of a “law” like “Thou shalt not kill” is determined by the meanings and definitions of the words and grammar that comprise the laws.

Broadly speaking, definitions are the “law [...]

July 21, 2008

Notes on Names

Some people (including me) suspect that an all-upper-case name (like “ALFRED ADASK”) may signify an estate, an account or some sort of legal fiction that is an entity completely different from that of a man whose proper name is capitalized (like “Alfred Adask”). This theory has been around since the early 1990s (I should know, [...]