Curiosities in the public record

[tmdiva]

Or at least I'm having serial annoyances.

In a forwarded e-mail message today: "froth" when he meant "fraught."

tm

[pretermitted_child]

U.S. to host oppoition meeting in Iraq

cnn.com's headline ticker (at 10:06pm PST on April 9, 2003).

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by tmdiva
Or at least I'm having serial annoyances.

In a forwarded e-mail message today: "froth" when he meant "fraught."

tm

Does the sender pronounce height as "heighth," too?

[Atticus Grinch]

Thanks to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day, I'm starting to wonder whether I and every lawyer I've ever met have been using "inure" incorrectly. Of course, it never gets used except in the phrase "inures to the detriment of the plaintiff," in which phrase it's pretty meaningless anyway. When you file a complaint, the average reader will safely assume that you're complaining that something or someone is giving you some cause to complain.

[Edit: typo]

[AngryMulletMan]

In transactional practice, a thing inures to a person when it benefits that person or or that person fixes his interest in it.

What I am wondering is why "X inures to the benefit of Y" is the drafting standard. It seems redundant.

Any Edwin Newman types out there?

[AngryMulletMan]

Flame away!

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Thanks to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day, I'm starting to wonder whether I and every lawyer I've ever met have been using "inure" incorrectly. Of course, it never gets used except in the phrase "inures to the detriment of the plaintiff," in which phrase it's pretty meaningless anyway. When you file a complaint, the average reader will safely assume that you're complaining that something or someone is giving you some cause to complain.

[Edit: typo]

They must be repeating themselves:

Dec. 20, 1999, WOTD

It does seem incorrectly used. In an "obviates the need for" kind of way.

[pretermitted_child]

CNN's Brent Sadler: Tikrit quite, looks like ghost town

location: http://www.cnn.com, first bullet point under very big "Tikrit Abandoned" headline (at 22:21 PST on April 13, 2003)

NOTE: The mistake was corrected within three minutes of my post.

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Thanks to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day, I'm starting to wonder whether I and every lawyer I've ever met have been using "inure" incorrectly. Of course, it never gets used except in the phrase "inures to the detriment of the plaintiff," in which phrase it's pretty meaningless anyway.

You haven't seen a lawyer use the word "inure" in the transitive sense? One would've thought you moved in better circles.

In any event, Dictionary.com's definition of "inure"'s intrasitive sense is incomplete. It's used in two ways: (i) come into effect, take or have effect, be applied &c , or (ii) to serve to the use or benefit of (e.g., the donation inured to the benefit of the charity).

Other dictionaries, perhaps even yours, include a broader definition of the intransitive sense.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by coup_d'skek
In any event, Dictionary.com's definition of "inure"'s intrasitive sense is incomplete. It's used in two ways: (i) come into effect, take or have effect, be applied &c , or (ii) to serve to the use or benefit of (e.g., the donation inured to the benefit of the charity).

What a relief! My cheap-ass firm doesn't have one of those better dictionaries upon which you rely. Is your firm accepting resumes? Because I really hope we can be cubicle-mates and share a copy of the OED and perhaps much more.

[SlaveNoMore]

My god, who started this room?

My god, no wonder I hated law school so much.


not7yS(hoot me)

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
My god, who started this room?

Mistress Eaze so graciously
conjured this room with alacrity
upon a silly request from me
so the FB remains timmy-free


pretermitted(with a flourish, em doffs em's feathered cap and bows deeply)child

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by coup_d'skek
Originally posted by Atticus Grinch


You haven't seen a lawyer use the word "inure" in the transitive sense? One would've thought you moved in better circles.

In any event, Dictionary.com's definition of "inure"'s intrasitive sense is incomplete. It's used in two ways: (i) come into effect, take or have effect, be applied &c , or (ii) to serve to the use or benefit of (e.g., the donation inured to the benefit of the charity).

Other dictionaries, perhaps even yours, include a broader definition of the intransitive sense.

All these lawyers and no one has noted that inure is a term of art, set out in section 501(c)(3) of the tax code (no part of the net earnings of a charity may inure to a private individual) and defined in the regulations as well as various rulings and cases?!?!!

Class, please, remember that dictionaries constitute neither statutes nor caselaw, and thus have no precedential value unless cited by said statutes or caselaw. The legal term of art is not subject to amendment by the rabble, even when the rabble have JDs.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by pretermitted_child
Mistress Eaze so graciously
conjured this room with alacrity
upon a silly request from me
so the FB remains timmy-free


pretermitted(with a flourish, em doffs em's feathered cap and bows deeply)child

HERE HERE!!

Good Post, but must the FB be truly timmifry?

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
HERE HERE!!

Good Post, but must the FB be truly timmifry?

timmifry? Is this some new dish?

pretermitted(I can't cook)child