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Re: Linxs & Interesting Things
« Reply #105 on: May 14, 2013, 05:51:08 PM »
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« Reply #109 on: May 17, 2013, 08:23:48 AM »
Why do the links describe the "Original 1811 Edition" while the image you post of the title page bears the imprint 1788?  (MDCCLXXXVIII)

Among other nuggets, they have a term for short sheeting someone's bed:

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APPLE-PYE BED. A bed made apple-pye fashion, like what
  is called a turnover apple-pye, where the sheets are so
  doubled as to prevent any one from getting at his length
  between them: a common trick played by frolicsome
  country lasses on their sweethearts, male relations, or
  visitors.

The British Library has a few pages from the 1785 edition.  Seems like Francis Grose was quite a character.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/images/texts/dict/large1402.html
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« Reply #110 on: May 17, 2013, 08:32:36 PM »
Why do the links describe the "Original 1811 Edition" while the image you post of the title page bears the imprint 1788?  (MDCCLXXXVIII)

That would be a result of me just finding a random image on the Interwebs and posting it. :-[

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Re: Linxs & Interesting Things
« Reply #119 on: June 07, 2013, 01:26:17 PM »
The officious bystander test:
Had an officious bystander been present at the time the contract was made and had suggested that such a term should be included, it must be obvious that both parties would have agreed to it.
Shirlaw v Southern Foundries [1939] 2 KB 206   

The man on the Clapham omnibus is a hypothetical reasonable person, used by the courts in English law where it is necessary to decide whether a party has acted in the way that a reasonable person should - for example, in a civil action for negligence. The man on the Clapham omnibus is a reasonably educated and intelligent but nondescript person, against whom the conduct of the defendant can be measured. This concept was used by Greer LJ in the case of Hall v. Brooklands Auto-Racing Club (1933)

Both can be used still