Today in Supreme Court History: November 25, 1757

11/25/1757: Henry Brockholst Livingston's birthday. He dissented in the property law classic, Pierson v. Post (NY 1805).

Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston

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[Commenter_XY]

Happy Thanksgiving VC Conspirators, to you and yours!

[Krayt]

Puffendorf

I can never keep the Hoggswort houses straight.

[Gandydancer]

What?

https://history.nycourts.gov/case/pierson-v-post/

[Michael P]

A transcript of the actual decision is linked above. In relevant part:

Puffendorf, lib. 4. c. 6. s. 2. and 10. defines occupancy of beasts feræ naturæ, to be the actual corporal possession of them, and Bynkershoek is cited as coinciding in this definition

[Gandydancer]

I didn't follow Blackman's link since, on past performance, he tends not to link to anything as helpful as the decision, but I see he did here.

So, Rowling didn't pull that name out of her butt? Who knew?

And then there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_von_Pufendorf

[Cal Cetín]

I can't believe I'm seeing such ignorance on a legal blog.

Puffendorf was a magic dragon.

[Cal Cetín]

This weekend is the beginning of Chanukah.

Sophisticated pagans, in the name of progress, tried to stamp out the religious clingers. The clingers fought and won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1Hqbfsn0w&list=RDOk1Hqbfsn0w&start_radio=1

[Commenter_XY]

Yes, we light candles to commemorate our glorious victory. We are still talking about it, a thousand years after the fact. The anti-semites? Well, they're rotting in their graves while we live life.

[Syd Henderson]

Happy Thanksgiving. I was amused reading this case and was assuming it was here for our amusement. Apparently it's a major case in property law, which is odd since it's really pretty silly. Though Livingston dissent was even sillier. I have to think you had to be there.

[JonFrum]

It looks like you could play tennis on top of that guy's head.