Strawman Legally Defined.

[chesterd]

The term strawman seems to have been construed as a made up name pertaining to a legal fiction.Well I thought I'd see if I could find it in any legal dictionaries and guess what?? I sure did and here are the references...

Ballentine's Law Dictionary 3rd edition

Stramineus.. (Latin) Straw
Straw Man.. A dummy.An irresponsible bondsman or surety.One made up to appear of the owner of record who infact holds title for another.

Black's Law Dictionary 4th edition.
Stramineus Homo..(Latin)..A man of straw,one of no substance,put forward as bail or surety.

Peace Chester

[the worm that turned]

The term strawman seems to have been construed as a made up name pertaining to a legal fiction.Well I thought I'd see if I could find it in any legal dictionaries and guess what?? I sure did and here are the references...

Ballentine's Law Dictionary 3rd edition

Stramineus.. (Latin) Straw
Straw Man.. A dummy.An irresponsible bondsman or surety.One made up to appear of the owner of record who infact holds title for another.

Black's Law Dictionary 4th edition.
Stramineus Homo..(Latin)..A man of straw,one of no substance,put forward as bail or surety.

Peace Chester

Is there a way to ask an official to answer a question (e.g. General Registrar, Home Secretary, Secretary of State etc) in a legally binding way/or on oath. The question being, "Do you or the government you represent hold claim to a title called JOHN DOE, John DOE, Mr John Doe, Mr JOHN DOE, Mr John Doe, which is representative of me, a man, called John of the family Doe, currently of [address]?"

Simple question, warranting a simple answer.

I asked the general registrar, but only in a general way (i.e. not "person" specific) and he said, it is not as simple as a yes or no!!!!!!

We need to make them admit it and we need to do it now!

[chesterd]

It's funny I dug out the first copy of my BC that my mother got and strangely it was given to her in a sleeve from "The Prudential Assurance Company Ltd London EC1" I've since found out that "the Crown" is a major shareholder of the Prudential Assurance Company and the Prudential Insurance Company.
Me thinks I might be onto something.:D

Peace

[pdcdp]

Is there a way to ask an official to answer a question (e.g. General Registrar, Home Secretary, Secretary of State etc) in a legally binding way/or on oath. The question being, "Do you or the government you represent hold claim to a title called JOHN DOE, John DOE, Mr John Doe, Mr JOHN DOE, Mr John Doe, which is representative of me, a man, called John of the family Doe, currently of [address]?"

Simple question, warranting a simple answer.


yes there is, but it won't help, the answer is no.

question is - do you hold any claim to such title?

[scottmurray]

MAN OF STRAW a person of no substance