Get back to us after you find some reference or legal scholar that
calls one or 2 cases a "body of law."

Bret Cahill

BretCahill@peoplepc.com wrote:

One example of a body of law: Constitutional Law. A damned good example
at that.

On Jun 26, 2:10 pm, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:

A body is a collection of particulars considered as a system while
there are other particulars not included in that system, usually of a
finite set; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of
precedents"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define

Examples from a wiki;

Criminal law is the body of law that defines criminal offences and the
penalties for convicted offenders.

"Particulars" is _plural_.

One case law ain't plural.

End of discussion.

If you cannot Shephardize it, then it ain't a "system."

End of discussion.

Bret Cahill

Try that theory with 1st Amend. case law.

Bret Cahill

Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote in news:3cd835df-18e5-44e5-8ac0-
faf35fd45822@h1g2000prh.googlegroups.com:

Now that you're done bloviating, answer a simple question:

Bret Cahill wrote:

My Dear Desperado, Case Law can embrace a whole field of study which may
contain many singular cases. You would have it that we cannot consider
singular cases at all. But the issue is not about your opinion. It is
about what is.

Bret Cahill wrote:

You insist upon misspelling Shepardize, so I suspect you haven't any
legal research at hand and have done no study of it in the past. I do,
and I have. Would you like a window into the field? Or do you insist
upon ranting like an ignorant lunatic?

BretCahill@peoplepc.com wrote:

I have 997 citations. Where do you want to start?

But you just have one case, and even there it isn't clear if the Court
was just humoring some idle law clerks.

Bret Cahill