Comments on: Andy Nolen, “Lawyer” [Updated Again]

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By: Stephen Rice

Stephen Rice — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:42:00 +0000

Well, I’ve not done any Latin since high school so I’ve forgotten most of the grammar I ever knew. Pecunia is just the basic noun for coins in your pocket sort of money. I can remember that sequor is “to follow” and sequere is the imperative from that so it’s just a matter of making the noun agree with the verb.

Alternatively I quite like “cui bono” – to whose benefit.

By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:15:31 +0000

I actually made that up. Would pecunia sequere make more sense?

By: Stephen Rice

Stephen Rice — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:51:20 +0000

That’s a very handy phrase. I understood viaticum to be Church latin (I had a thorough education if nothing else) and was really confused by why you were asking us to follow the Holy Communion. Why didn’t they settle on a word like pecunia or something easily derivable like that?

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By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:03:53 +0000

One of the things lost in the tragic events of this morning was the correction I had made to my legal principle.

Should be “viaticum sequere.” Follow the money.

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:18:54 +0000

Among the last things I give would give a damn about when hiring a criminal defense attorney would be his knowledge of Latin legal maxims.

Yours is the ONLY PAGE IN EXISTENCE that includes the legal principle of “sequere viaticum”. I still can’t figure out what you mean, even though I know a bit of Latin.

I can see it now. Bennett & Bennett . Their misuse of Latin, or perhaps it was use of Latin so obscure it doesn’t appear in Blackstone, Pliny the Elder, Thomas Aquinas, or Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War, confused me, so I hired Andy Nolen, who explained the term “mens rea” to the jury in a manner I’m sure most of them would understand.

Of course, if I hit the fan in Houston, I’d hire you. See sentence one. Awful Latin. Great post.