Just ran across this unusual bit of legalese, which I thought I’d pass along, mostly for its funny sound. It means just what you think it means.
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Successes in Colorado Sheriffs’ Second Amendment case
By David Kopel on July 15, 2013 6:20 pm in Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Guns, Legal Terms, Self-Defense
This post provides an update on last week’s developments in Cooke et al. v. Hickenlooper. This is a lawsuit filed May 17 in federal District Court in Denver, challenging two gun laws enacted by the state legislature in March. In the case, I represent 55 of Colorado’s 62 elected Sheriffs, plus one retired police officer. Other […]
China
China is a country. China is a kind of dish. According to dictionary.com, “china” is also “a playing marble of china, or sometimes of porcelain or glass.” But it turns out that, in some states, a term pronounced — but not spelled — “china” is a bit of legalese. What does it mean?