Longest Week Yet

This week has been the longest week yet. Here a St. Mary's there is a competition between the four sections of first year students. This week is that week. It's called Battle of the Rattlers but I think it should be renamed to "This is why you shouldn't have run for SBA" or maybe, "Hell Week for 1L SBA Senators" or even, "Let's see how far behind you can get in a week." Well, it started off Monday with a competition after school. Didn't finish till 5:45 then an SBA meeting till 7. Tuesday we had Basketball and it took all night. Yesterday was Football and again we didn't finish till about 7:30. Tonight was something called Red Mass where the legal community comes together and asks for God's blessing over the new Judicial year. After that they celebrate by having a big reception where there will be free food and lots of drinking. Ironic huh. I can see how there's such a high rate of alcoholics in the legal profession. It starts in law school. My friends party pretty hard. They drink to unwind, to celebrate, to forget. I can imagine that finishing school and getting out into the real world where they have to deal with clients and student loans, billable hours and partnerships only makes it worse. I thank God all of the time for the discipline that my parents instilled in me as a child. I've got my hiccups just like everyone else, I'm grateful that a vice like smoking or drinking isn't one of them. I need to get back to work. I just wanted to give everyone something to read. I've noticed the the posts haven't been nearly as creative as in the beginning of school. I notice more and more that the pressures of Law School sap some of the life out of you. Constant pressure. Constant.

Sorry it's been so long...

Sorry it's been so long. I know that some of you check the blog often. It's been pretty busy over here. I wont try and get into everything that's happened since my last post. I haven't had much free time and when I do have free time, I try and do the important stuff like sleep, or eat, or use the bathroom or shave (those of you who have seen me know that shaving isn't something I've done in a while). So today is Monday and it's the beginning of Battle of the Rattlers. A contest between the four sections of 1L's. So to prepare for that I've had to make announcements in our section (65 people) every day for the last week and a half. I had to design a shirt (actually 4 shirts, they voted on one). We voted on the T-shirts and that was a wreck. We finally decided on a shirt and now we're trying to be the section with the most spirit. I've made so many announcements that I'm sure my sections hates hearing me talk. Actually it hasn't been that bad. In our legal writing class we're writing a client letter. I wrote to a client that was fired because he served on jury duty. He wants to bring suit on grounds of intentional infliction of emotional distress. Basically, my letter said, "Sorry buddy, your lawsuit wont fly in court." So I got that in and now I've got two practice tests this week. So much work, behind in some of my reading and I've got a meeting tonight with SBA and competitions all week long. I HATE LAW SCHOOL.

It's Wednesday Already

It's already Wednesday, I can't even believe it. I've studied about 8 hours every single day this week. Big exam today. Actually the test is in about 45 minutes. I've studied hard and test isn't for a grade. Funny thing, the test doesn't count but I've studied harder than i ever did for tests that were graded.

This weekend was great. It was good to be at home and spend time with my family. Sorry I didn't get to see you Becky, next time. I spent time with my family and with Katie. It was good to see Josh and Jordan and Emily. It was good talking to Steve and Jonathan, and great seing Dave and Toni. Thanks for letting me stay at your house, Debbie and Richard. K, I've got to go, talk to you soon.

The Sun Isn't Out

It's only 1p and the day all ready feels like one of the longes of the semester. It's been a busy week. The workload really started to pick up this week. More reading, tougher cases, longer assignments in Research & Writing (a pass/fail course that teaches you how to do legal research). This weekend I'll go home for the first time since coming to lawschool. It'll be an extended weekend, we have fall break. I wont come back till Monday. I'm looking forward to seeing Katie and spending time with her at home. We have birthday parties most of the weekend and while I'll be at all of them, my mind will be here at St. Mary's. This four day weekend is generally the weekend where 1L's start to really work on their outlines for school. That's also my plan. Outlining for a class is a very tedious task. You sit at a table with your school book, class notes, case briefs and supplements and form an outline of the legal rules, exceptions, defenses and applications you've learned. This document at the end of the semester might be up to 40 or 50 pages long and will be the only document you use to study at the end of the semester at finals time. So you can imagine that the outline is very important. Hopefully I'll be able to get some work done.

Grades at lawschool are very different than grades at undergrad which is much like highschool. In most of my classes I'll have one test at the end of the semester which will basically result in my overall grade for the class. You have one test, over everything you've covered from August to December. One shot, once chance.

It's a stressful way

Lost

Once the fee became alienable, the feudal realities behind a conveyance to A "and his heirs" became meaningless. This transformation is vividly illustrated in connection with escheat. Suppose that L conveys land "to A and his heirs" and subsequently A conveys the land "to B and his heirs." Then A dies without heirs. Will the land escheat to L? Soon after Quia Emptores the judges answered no; the land will escheat only if the current tenant of the fee dies without heirs. Thus the fee, which started out a simply a holding, became an alienable fee simple, a freehold estate not terminable at the will of the lord. with an existence all its own.

- Future Interests, Property