Oohhhhh Nooooooooo...

Disregard last blog entry. In its place, please reference the following pictorial representation of property exam:

Second Thoughts

"The contrast between vested and contingent interests can be shown by returning to the fee simple subject to a condition subsequent and the companion concept, the right of re-entry. That type of fee is vested, but it may be lost (or divested) if the condition is breached. The right of re-entry is subject to a condition precedent, namely, the violation of the condition; therefore it is contingent. Only a fiction precludes the same analysis in relation to a determinable interest followed by the possibility of reverter. The determinable fee is vested. The possibility of reverter would logically (!) appear to be contingent, just as the right of re-entry, but a different view has prevailed in Canada. The determining event is regarded as marking a natural limitation of the estate granted and not as imposing a super-added condition. This means the possibility of reverter is treated as being vested at common law."

P.S. April 24 - happily in terms of exam-writing purposes (but ever-so unhappily in many, many other ways) I now actually understand the above. Three cheers for conditional transfers and the rule against perpetuities!

Return of the Lamb Blanket!

This being the exam season it only makes sense to start a major knitting project. Enter: return of the lamb blanket!

(It's a sequel because this is the second lamb set I have made - the first was for the handsome Roberto, official lamb gear model, shown above.)

I am going international with this set - it is being sent to a lucky kid in Brazil!

The blanket itself is fun to make - but putting the actual lambs on it is a pain in the lamb-pants. This is because the lambs are all duplicate-stitched (basically embroidered) after the blanket is done. And to avoid scaring the darling children with amputee lambs, all the lambs need to have a face, a body, and two feet. That means each of the 14 lambs has 8 ends to be worked in... I think you can smell what I'm cooking here: many fun-filled hours of stitching.

I call the blanket "Counting Sheep" which I give myself props for thinking up. Boo. Yah.

The name I thought up for the little matching hat, on the other hand, was not as well-recieved: "Mutton Helmet". While I think it's hilarious, there are those who think it's gross. Go figure.

So, blog readership, I will be very open to any bright hat-naming ideas that don't involve the "M" word.