Dear friends,
Namaskar.
Do you know how many laws are in your country?
Do you know how many laws are related to you?
Is it possible even to abide by known laws?
You may be a very learned person and even in law. But can you be sure of your interpretation of law?
Is it not a fact that facts and law remaining the same interpretation can be anything as their lordships please?
Is not then law is elusive or what can be called a maya?
Regards,
Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
174Namaskar.
Do you know how many laws are in your country?
Do you know how many laws are related to you?
Is it possible even to abide by known laws?
You may be a very learned person and even in law. But can you be sure of your interpretation of law?
Is it not a fact that facts and law remaining the same interpretation can be anything as their lordships please?
Is not then law is elusive or what can be called a maya?
Regards,
Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Dear Doctor,
Namaskar
As far as the subject line is concerned..............
Everyone is law abiding till proved that he is not abiding by law.
Hence every one is a law abider till he gets a chargesheet menioning the instances of breaking law.
Regards
RAM
From India, Hyderabad
Namaskar
As far as the subject line is concerned..............
Everyone is law abiding till proved that he is not abiding by law.
Hence every one is a law abider till he gets a chargesheet menioning the instances of breaking law.
Regards
RAM
From India, Hyderabad
Dear pippalaram,
Namskar.
Thanks for your reply. My very purpose of opening this thread is to aquaint the members with the real atmosphere of legal arena. Because there is graeat deal of misconceptios about the legal system. Knowing the reality will help the members and particularly the youngsters to re orient themselves in respect of legal atmosphere.
What you have stated is the existential dictum for the system and not for its subjects. The subjects get tempted to broaden their chests by this dictum but in reality it gives benefit to the system.
So mr. pippallaram and and friends, will you please post your views to unfold the real legal atmosphere?
Regards,
jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Namskar.
Thanks for your reply. My very purpose of opening this thread is to aquaint the members with the real atmosphere of legal arena. Because there is graeat deal of misconceptios about the legal system. Knowing the reality will help the members and particularly the youngsters to re orient themselves in respect of legal atmosphere.
What you have stated is the existential dictum for the system and not for its subjects. The subjects get tempted to broaden their chests by this dictum but in reality it gives benefit to the system.
So mr. pippallaram and and friends, will you please post your views to unfold the real legal atmosphere?
Regards,
jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Dear Colleagues,
The issue of who is law abiding for me would swing to the thinking of Dr. Jogeshwar.
I would say that most times we mix up legality with morality, which most times of course could be confusing.
An extreme example I would give is this-it is lawful for a tobacco company to be in business provided all regulatory/statutory conditions are fulfilled but is it morally right for them to keep on producing and selling their products to the consuming public!?
To the workplace, an average employee would keep to the rules provided they are stated and are not too draconian to abide with.
For instance, the no-smoking rule in most corporate environment is followed strictly-but it would be difficult to impose a rule of "no water-drinking at the workplace!!!"
For this can of no-water drinking rule, infact CEOs would break the rules simply because it is draconian and certainly should not be formulated as a policy in the first place.
Quickly again I would like to add that by definitions and locations- at the workplace we can have rules, codes, policies, schemes, procedures, systems, which of course localizes them to these firms while on the other hand-laws, acts, edicts, legislations, statutory requirements are enforces or promulgated by the state-local, state or federal.
The reason for these definitions is to point to the fact that what Companies have internally as policy guidelines would be superceded by the law of the land when and where there is a conflict.
For instance deduction made from employee salary is more than 1/3 of total package-the labour law which of course is internationally acknowledged is against such-in resolving this the labour law would serve as an arbiter.
Thanks.
From Nigeria, Lagos
The issue of who is law abiding for me would swing to the thinking of Dr. Jogeshwar.
I would say that most times we mix up legality with morality, which most times of course could be confusing.
An extreme example I would give is this-it is lawful for a tobacco company to be in business provided all regulatory/statutory conditions are fulfilled but is it morally right for them to keep on producing and selling their products to the consuming public!?
To the workplace, an average employee would keep to the rules provided they are stated and are not too draconian to abide with.
For instance, the no-smoking rule in most corporate environment is followed strictly-but it would be difficult to impose a rule of "no water-drinking at the workplace!!!"
For this can of no-water drinking rule, infact CEOs would break the rules simply because it is draconian and certainly should not be formulated as a policy in the first place.
Quickly again I would like to add that by definitions and locations- at the workplace we can have rules, codes, policies, schemes, procedures, systems, which of course localizes them to these firms while on the other hand-laws, acts, edicts, legislations, statutory requirements are enforces or promulgated by the state-local, state or federal.
The reason for these definitions is to point to the fact that what Companies have internally as policy guidelines would be superceded by the law of the land when and where there is a conflict.
For instance deduction made from employee salary is more than 1/3 of total package-the labour law which of course is internationally acknowledged is against such-in resolving this the labour law would serve as an arbiter.
Thanks.
From Nigeria, Lagos
Dear friends, It is nice that Afolabi Ajayi has added one more dimension, that is, between variance. My original focus was on within variance. Regards, Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
From India, Delhi
Dear friends,
Namaskar.
Can you find interest in the topic now? You can get lacs of websites on "Law is an ass".
regards,
jogeshwar.
Articles: The Law is a Ass
by Bob Ingersoll
Bob Ingersoll is a senior attorney with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender Office in Cleveland, Ohio. His real love, however, is comic books and he has written scripts for such books as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Lost in Space, the Green Hornet, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Quantum Leap and was the regular writer on Hero Alliance. Since 1983, Bob has written "The Law is a Ass" for Comics Buyer's Guide, a regular column in which he analyzes how the law is portrayed in comics then explains how it would really work. In 1998, Bob and fellow CBG columnist Tony Isabella wrote their first novel, Captain America: Liberty's Torch.
Originally published in The Comics Buyer's Guide # 519
October 28, 1983 issue
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I first learned about it in Fantastic Four # 160, Page 16 Panel 3, to be precise. Sometime, several months before that issue and at Reed Richards' suggestion, the F.F. had quietly incorporated. Even at the time, though I was but a lowly college student and unknowledgeable about the ways of the real world, I wondered why. Why after years of existence as whatever type of organization it had been, did the Fantastic Four suddenly incorporate? (I knew the reason had to be more than that the writer had a story line or two whose actualization required that the F.F. incorporate. Comic writers wouldn't have their characters suddenly do something which the characters had, until that point felt, totally unnecessary, simply to advance a plot, now would they?)
Now I know the reason. One law school course on corporate law revealed it. So, in the honored comic book tradition of the secret origin of Flash's masked identity and the untold story of Warlord's helmet, I offer the untold story behind the secret origin of the Fantastic Four's incorporation. Besides, I'm a peach of a guy. Rather than force any of my loyal readers to cough up the tuition for law school and suffer through a corporate law class for the answer, I'll give it out free for nothing. All I ask is that you name your first born male child after me. (Not too difficult, really, it's already far too late to name him before me.)
The F.F.'s incorporation has to do with money, first making it and then keeping it. I know that talking about money is plebeian, even crass, and that super-heroes should be above that sort of thing. But they're not. It takes money to keep Johnny Storm stocked with hot sauce or to maintain Reed Richards' one hundred pairs of stretch socks.
The F.F. has no trouble making money. Reed's patents, which supply the money, are of such number and quality that the Fantastic Four-or a small army in Bolivia-can live off of their sales and applications. Considering the F.F.'s expenses, however-the electric bill on the Negative Zone portal alone must he staggering and the Fantasti-car can't get good mileage-one can only conclude that Reed Richards has a patent on the letter E.
Keeping the money the F.F. makes is another matter, one in which incorporation would help considerably. First incorporation creates tremendous tax advantages for the Fantastic Four. Exactly how the advantages come about is complicated, so you'll just have to trust me on this one. I can't explain it to the lay public; mostly because I don't understand it myself.
(I beg your pardon, Don and Maggie? I won't get what if I don't come across with a legitimate reason? Paid? I won't get paid for the column? Okaayyy...)
It has to do with who is liable for the taxes owed by a corporation versus those owed by a partnership. Partners in a partnership share the profits and are individually liable for paying the income taxes on said profits. A corporation, on the other hand, is a separate legal entity, a fictional person which is liable for the taxes on all corporate income. Thus, it is Fantastic Four, Incorporated which pays the taxes on the income generated by Fantastic Four, Incorporated, not Reed and the gang.
The tax advantage that this situation creates comes with the realization that along with a patent of the letter E, Reed Richards obviously has political clout. Lots of political clout. Remember we're talking about a man who was able to swing enough zoning variances to permit jet plane landings, rocket ship take-offs, and nuclear generators in the Baxter Building, a mid-town Manhattan address only a few blocks from the United Nations building. All of that in mid-town Manhattan requires more pull than a Coney Island taffy concession. Reed must have enough connections, that he could get Congress to Vote itself a pay cut. With such pull working for him, Reed would have no trouble in getting the F.F. declared a non-profit organization. As a matter of fact, they are. Check The Amazing Spider-Man # l.
The point of all this is that non-profit corporations do not have to pay income taxes, because they don't have any income. So if it is Fantastic Four, Inc. which is liable for the income taxes-not Reed, Sue, Ben, or Johnny-and if Fantastic Four, Inc. is a tax exempt non-profit organization, no one pays the taxes. Indeed, there are no taxes. And if you don't think there's a tremendous tax advantage on not having to pay the taxes on fifteen quintuplatillion umptuplatillion multiplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars, you need to study H&R Block's 17 reasons again.
Saving on taxes isn't the only advantage that the corporate structure offers the Fantastic Four. There's an even bigger one in what's called limitation of liability. Your average super-hero/super-villain contest produces repercussions that don't go away, when the gendarmes cart off the bad guy. To quote from John Byrne in Fantastic Four # 260 Page Panel 1, "Leaving [the site of the battle] will not prove quite so easy, the consequences of a major battle in the middle of a highly populated area being many. There are accounts both economic and emotional that will take years to settle." In other words, your average super-hero/super-villain contest levels your average city block. So when the F.F. trashes a supermarket, freeway and a taxicab in one issue, someone's got to pay far all that damage.
Damage to someone's property due to a super powered fight, has always been a problem, especially at Marvel, where the heroes are more destructive. If you don't believe me there, take the same test Don once gave me: picture a closed door and imagine how the heroes would go through it. Flash would vibrate through. Atom would shrink and walk between the atoms. Batman would pick the lock. Even the DC hero most likely to break down the door, Superman, you know would return later and repair it at super speed, because we've all seen him do it several times. (Which brings up a side complaint from the movie Superman II. At the film's beginning Clark Kent jaywalks and carelessly allows a taxi to smash into him. The result is a large V shaped dent in the front end. Superman never fixed the damage he caused, a fact I know, because the same damaged taxi appears later in the movie. Its dent, incidently, giving a new meaning to the term V-8 engine.)
Now imagine the Marvel heroes going through the same door. Iron Man would blast it with Repulsor Rays. Thor would smash it with his hammer and not even have to retrieve the hammer. Cyclops, Iron Fist, Power Man, Hulk, Thing and virtually everybody found in The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe, volumes 5-11 would break down the door.
This problem of destruction has reached epic proportions under John Byrne's run of the Fantastic Four and The Thing. Case in point Thing # 6. Pages 18, 19, and 20, where Ben Grimm seems to have taken out one-third of mid-town Manhattan. Only the destruction to Tokyo in Toho Production's classic, Godzilla Vs. Mecha Ruta-Baga rivals Ben's clash with Puppet Master for pure mindless destruction.
Now, someone has to reimburse the owners, so that they can restore their rubble. And it's probably not Nationwide that's on their side. If the insurance companies were smart they would already have incorporated clauses in their policies specifically exempting damage caused by super powered battles from coverage. Even if the owners do have a peace of the rock, the insurance companies wouldn't sit on their losses. No, the Rock would sue the persons responsible for the damage for what we lawyers call indemnification. (Don't ask, we had to call it something and what's coming to me was already taken.)
Your average super-hero/super-villain fight leaves your average super hero with a big law suit on his hands. Many times the hero would have a defense, the Doctrine of Emergency. This is a common law doctrine which most, if not all states, have adopted. It says, if a person causes property damage or personal injury while acting in an emergency-particularly a life threatening emergency-said person is not liable for said damage or injury. Constant reliance on this doctrine, however, is impossible.
Remember the hero must be acting in an emergency and what was an emergency once might not be so forever. I can just picture Judge Wapner's ruling. "I'm sorry, Mr. Richards. I realize you destroyed Sea World of Orlando protecting the Earth from Galactus's recent attack. But this Court must also take judicial notice of the fact that Galactus has already failed to eat the Earth some forty-seven times to date. This Court rules that Galactus has proven himself to be ineffectual, incompetent and not an emergency at all. Judgement for Shamu."
Even if the Doctrine of Emergency could he invoked over the damage caused fighting such notables as the Ringer or Leapfrog, the Doctrine does not cover all super hero caused damage. How many times have you seen the Thing get mad and rip up a Rolls? Or the Torch slag a pike in a pique? Several, right? So, when Ben Grimm levels Levitown in a jealous rage, because Silver Surfer was having tea with Alicia again, that wouldn't count.
Reed Richards must have seen several persons whose property had been so destroyed file suit against the Fantastic Four, even if Smilin' Stan and Jolly Jack didn't show us the suits. Perhaps that's why the F.F. went bankrupt back in Fantastic Four # 9. And, maybe they were feeling another monetary crunch in issue 160, paying for all the property the Thing and the Torch destroyed.
Reed is, if nothing else, an intelligent, farsighted man. He saw that he had to insulate his personal fortune from the antics of this two-man wrecking crew under his command, before someone successfully sued him for not controlling them better.
Incorporation provided the perfect insulation. A corporation, such as F.F., Inc. is a legal entity, which can be sued in a court of law. Moreover, the corporation, not the board of directors is liable for the wrongs committed by its employees. In other words, when your Chrysler blows up, because of a faulty frammistat-Frammistat? I'm a lawyer, Jim, not a mechanic-you could sue Chrysler. Inc. and win all its assets. You might even win its debt to the Feds. But you couldn't collect a cent from Lee Iacocca, because he's not personally liable. This nifty little legal loophole is, as I said, called Limited Liability and is the reason so many "suits" incorporate. In the event of a lawsuit, it saves them the shirts off their backs. (After all what good is a suit without a shirt?
In the same way the Yancy Street Gang could sue Ben Grimm for the injury he caused them. They could sue Fantastic Four, Incorporated. But they could not sue Reed Richards. Reed gets to keep his one hundred pairs of stretch socks.
So there you have it, the untold story behind the secret origin of Fantastic Four, Incorporated. Maybe next time I'll tell you the real reason that Bruce Wayne abandoned the Wayne Foundation. But if you think about it you should see. I mean would you want to head an organization that sends its top executives into an eastern European country just forty-eight hours before a major revolution. The liability potential there staggers the imagination.
Last updated February 12, 2003.
All textual content ©2005 Sean Kleefeld.
The Fantastic Four and all related characters and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof are Trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc.
From India, Delhi
Namaskar.
Can you find interest in the topic now? You can get lacs of websites on "Law is an ass".
regards,
jogeshwar.
Articles: The Law is a Ass
by Bob Ingersoll
Bob Ingersoll is a senior attorney with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender Office in Cleveland, Ohio. His real love, however, is comic books and he has written scripts for such books as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Lost in Space, the Green Hornet, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Quantum Leap and was the regular writer on Hero Alliance. Since 1983, Bob has written "The Law is a Ass" for Comics Buyer's Guide, a regular column in which he analyzes how the law is portrayed in comics then explains how it would really work. In 1998, Bob and fellow CBG columnist Tony Isabella wrote their first novel, Captain America: Liberty's Torch.
Originally published in The Comics Buyer's Guide # 519
October 28, 1983 issue
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I first learned about it in Fantastic Four # 160, Page 16 Panel 3, to be precise. Sometime, several months before that issue and at Reed Richards' suggestion, the F.F. had quietly incorporated. Even at the time, though I was but a lowly college student and unknowledgeable about the ways of the real world, I wondered why. Why after years of existence as whatever type of organization it had been, did the Fantastic Four suddenly incorporate? (I knew the reason had to be more than that the writer had a story line or two whose actualization required that the F.F. incorporate. Comic writers wouldn't have their characters suddenly do something which the characters had, until that point felt, totally unnecessary, simply to advance a plot, now would they?)
Now I know the reason. One law school course on corporate law revealed it. So, in the honored comic book tradition of the secret origin of Flash's masked identity and the untold story of Warlord's helmet, I offer the untold story behind the secret origin of the Fantastic Four's incorporation. Besides, I'm a peach of a guy. Rather than force any of my loyal readers to cough up the tuition for law school and suffer through a corporate law class for the answer, I'll give it out free for nothing. All I ask is that you name your first born male child after me. (Not too difficult, really, it's already far too late to name him before me.)
The F.F.'s incorporation has to do with money, first making it and then keeping it. I know that talking about money is plebeian, even crass, and that super-heroes should be above that sort of thing. But they're not. It takes money to keep Johnny Storm stocked with hot sauce or to maintain Reed Richards' one hundred pairs of stretch socks.
The F.F. has no trouble making money. Reed's patents, which supply the money, are of such number and quality that the Fantastic Four-or a small army in Bolivia-can live off of their sales and applications. Considering the F.F.'s expenses, however-the electric bill on the Negative Zone portal alone must he staggering and the Fantasti-car can't get good mileage-one can only conclude that Reed Richards has a patent on the letter E.
Keeping the money the F.F. makes is another matter, one in which incorporation would help considerably. First incorporation creates tremendous tax advantages for the Fantastic Four. Exactly how the advantages come about is complicated, so you'll just have to trust me on this one. I can't explain it to the lay public; mostly because I don't understand it myself.
(I beg your pardon, Don and Maggie? I won't get what if I don't come across with a legitimate reason? Paid? I won't get paid for the column? Okaayyy...)
It has to do with who is liable for the taxes owed by a corporation versus those owed by a partnership. Partners in a partnership share the profits and are individually liable for paying the income taxes on said profits. A corporation, on the other hand, is a separate legal entity, a fictional person which is liable for the taxes on all corporate income. Thus, it is Fantastic Four, Incorporated which pays the taxes on the income generated by Fantastic Four, Incorporated, not Reed and the gang.
The tax advantage that this situation creates comes with the realization that along with a patent of the letter E, Reed Richards obviously has political clout. Lots of political clout. Remember we're talking about a man who was able to swing enough zoning variances to permit jet plane landings, rocket ship take-offs, and nuclear generators in the Baxter Building, a mid-town Manhattan address only a few blocks from the United Nations building. All of that in mid-town Manhattan requires more pull than a Coney Island taffy concession. Reed must have enough connections, that he could get Congress to Vote itself a pay cut. With such pull working for him, Reed would have no trouble in getting the F.F. declared a non-profit organization. As a matter of fact, they are. Check The Amazing Spider-Man # l.
The point of all this is that non-profit corporations do not have to pay income taxes, because they don't have any income. So if it is Fantastic Four, Inc. which is liable for the income taxes-not Reed, Sue, Ben, or Johnny-and if Fantastic Four, Inc. is a tax exempt non-profit organization, no one pays the taxes. Indeed, there are no taxes. And if you don't think there's a tremendous tax advantage on not having to pay the taxes on fifteen quintuplatillion umptuplatillion multiplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars, you need to study H&R Block's 17 reasons again.
Saving on taxes isn't the only advantage that the corporate structure offers the Fantastic Four. There's an even bigger one in what's called limitation of liability. Your average super-hero/super-villain contest produces repercussions that don't go away, when the gendarmes cart off the bad guy. To quote from John Byrne in Fantastic Four # 260 Page Panel 1, "Leaving [the site of the battle] will not prove quite so easy, the consequences of a major battle in the middle of a highly populated area being many. There are accounts both economic and emotional that will take years to settle." In other words, your average super-hero/super-villain contest levels your average city block. So when the F.F. trashes a supermarket, freeway and a taxicab in one issue, someone's got to pay far all that damage.
Damage to someone's property due to a super powered fight, has always been a problem, especially at Marvel, where the heroes are more destructive. If you don't believe me there, take the same test Don once gave me: picture a closed door and imagine how the heroes would go through it. Flash would vibrate through. Atom would shrink and walk between the atoms. Batman would pick the lock. Even the DC hero most likely to break down the door, Superman, you know would return later and repair it at super speed, because we've all seen him do it several times. (Which brings up a side complaint from the movie Superman II. At the film's beginning Clark Kent jaywalks and carelessly allows a taxi to smash into him. The result is a large V shaped dent in the front end. Superman never fixed the damage he caused, a fact I know, because the same damaged taxi appears later in the movie. Its dent, incidently, giving a new meaning to the term V-8 engine.)
Now imagine the Marvel heroes going through the same door. Iron Man would blast it with Repulsor Rays. Thor would smash it with his hammer and not even have to retrieve the hammer. Cyclops, Iron Fist, Power Man, Hulk, Thing and virtually everybody found in The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe, volumes 5-11 would break down the door.
This problem of destruction has reached epic proportions under John Byrne's run of the Fantastic Four and The Thing. Case in point Thing # 6. Pages 18, 19, and 20, where Ben Grimm seems to have taken out one-third of mid-town Manhattan. Only the destruction to Tokyo in Toho Production's classic, Godzilla Vs. Mecha Ruta-Baga rivals Ben's clash with Puppet Master for pure mindless destruction.
Now, someone has to reimburse the owners, so that they can restore their rubble. And it's probably not Nationwide that's on their side. If the insurance companies were smart they would already have incorporated clauses in their policies specifically exempting damage caused by super powered battles from coverage. Even if the owners do have a peace of the rock, the insurance companies wouldn't sit on their losses. No, the Rock would sue the persons responsible for the damage for what we lawyers call indemnification. (Don't ask, we had to call it something and what's coming to me was already taken.)
Your average super-hero/super-villain fight leaves your average super hero with a big law suit on his hands. Many times the hero would have a defense, the Doctrine of Emergency. This is a common law doctrine which most, if not all states, have adopted. It says, if a person causes property damage or personal injury while acting in an emergency-particularly a life threatening emergency-said person is not liable for said damage or injury. Constant reliance on this doctrine, however, is impossible.
Remember the hero must be acting in an emergency and what was an emergency once might not be so forever. I can just picture Judge Wapner's ruling. "I'm sorry, Mr. Richards. I realize you destroyed Sea World of Orlando protecting the Earth from Galactus's recent attack. But this Court must also take judicial notice of the fact that Galactus has already failed to eat the Earth some forty-seven times to date. This Court rules that Galactus has proven himself to be ineffectual, incompetent and not an emergency at all. Judgement for Shamu."
Even if the Doctrine of Emergency could he invoked over the damage caused fighting such notables as the Ringer or Leapfrog, the Doctrine does not cover all super hero caused damage. How many times have you seen the Thing get mad and rip up a Rolls? Or the Torch slag a pike in a pique? Several, right? So, when Ben Grimm levels Levitown in a jealous rage, because Silver Surfer was having tea with Alicia again, that wouldn't count.
Reed Richards must have seen several persons whose property had been so destroyed file suit against the Fantastic Four, even if Smilin' Stan and Jolly Jack didn't show us the suits. Perhaps that's why the F.F. went bankrupt back in Fantastic Four # 9. And, maybe they were feeling another monetary crunch in issue 160, paying for all the property the Thing and the Torch destroyed.
Reed is, if nothing else, an intelligent, farsighted man. He saw that he had to insulate his personal fortune from the antics of this two-man wrecking crew under his command, before someone successfully sued him for not controlling them better.
Incorporation provided the perfect insulation. A corporation, such as F.F., Inc. is a legal entity, which can be sued in a court of law. Moreover, the corporation, not the board of directors is liable for the wrongs committed by its employees. In other words, when your Chrysler blows up, because of a faulty frammistat-Frammistat? I'm a lawyer, Jim, not a mechanic-you could sue Chrysler. Inc. and win all its assets. You might even win its debt to the Feds. But you couldn't collect a cent from Lee Iacocca, because he's not personally liable. This nifty little legal loophole is, as I said, called Limited Liability and is the reason so many "suits" incorporate. In the event of a lawsuit, it saves them the shirts off their backs. (After all what good is a suit without a shirt?
In the same way the Yancy Street Gang could sue Ben Grimm for the injury he caused them. They could sue Fantastic Four, Incorporated. But they could not sue Reed Richards. Reed gets to keep his one hundred pairs of stretch socks.
So there you have it, the untold story behind the secret origin of Fantastic Four, Incorporated. Maybe next time I'll tell you the real reason that Bruce Wayne abandoned the Wayne Foundation. But if you think about it you should see. I mean would you want to head an organization that sends its top executives into an eastern European country just forty-eight hours before a major revolution. The liability potential there staggers the imagination.
Last updated February 12, 2003.
All textual content ©2005 Sean Kleefeld.
The Fantastic Four and all related characters and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof are Trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc.
From India, Delhi
Dear Dr.
Its difficult to answer your question.
It is like asking do you whether you have freedom to do anything you want? I have freedom to streach my hand to full extent. But it can be done to the extent that it does not hit others. For I do not have right to hit other person. Hence my freedom stops where other persons freedom starts.
This is similar to law. I am law abiding as long as I do not hurt others.
Regards
N.Neelam
From India, Madras
Its difficult to answer your question.
It is like asking do you whether you have freedom to do anything you want? I have freedom to streach my hand to full extent. But it can be done to the extent that it does not hit others. For I do not have right to hit other person. Hence my freedom stops where other persons freedom starts.
This is similar to law. I am law abiding as long as I do not hurt others.
Regards
N.Neelam
From India, Madras
Dear Neelam,
Namaskar.
Thanks for your reply. The issue i have posted is general having emphasis on "can".
The issue does not require to say whether or not the replier is law abiding. Right?
Regards,
jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Namaskar.
Thanks for your reply. The issue i have posted is general having emphasis on "can".
The issue does not require to say whether or not the replier is law abiding. Right?
Regards,
jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Dear All
There is a Latin saying :Ignoratia Juris Non Excusat .It simply means "Ignorance of the Law is No excuse". Because the Law deals with common folks,in any Criminal prosecution the Public Prosecutor has to prove the case beyond all reasonable doubt.
With Regards
V.Sounder Rajan
E-mail :
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From India, Bangalore
There is a Latin saying :Ignoratia Juris Non Excusat .It simply means "Ignorance of the Law is No excuse". Because the Law deals with common folks,in any Criminal prosecution the Public Prosecutor has to prove the case beyond all reasonable doubt.
With Regards
V.Sounder Rajan
E-mail :
From India, Bangalore
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