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Mon Aug 14 14:20:36 UTC 2006

Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:

> 
> David Schwartz wrote:
> 
>>     Nonsense. You have tort obligations as well as contractual 
>> obligations.
>> Specifically, if you take custody of someone else's data, and you have no
>> contract with that person, you have a tort obligation not to destroy it.
> 
> 
> The nonsense is here!  I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure that if 
> you abandon property (stretching the definition of "property" to get you 
> foolishness into view) that I did not ask for on my property, I am am 
> pretty sure that not only can I abate the nuisance, I in doing so have a 
> tort claim against you for the damage and the cost of abatement.
> 
> <triviata deletia>

Too bad I'm no longer bright enough to read my own .sig!  Among other 
things, it says there from time to time:

"Ex turpi causa non oritur actio" which I believe to be Lawyer Latin for 
"No cause of action may be founded upon an immoral or illegal act".

(Thanks sixthformlaw.info for the quotation.)
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