The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-01-15
LEGAL PHANTOMS.
Many Statutes That Exist Only
In the Imagination.
EXAMPLES OF "N0 SUCH LAW"
Popular Beliefs Which Have Sprung
Up, No One Knows How, and Become
Fixed Ideas, Yet Have Mo Founda.
ton In Legislative Enaetments.

Up, No One Knows How, and Become
Fixed Ideas, Yet Have No Founda.
ton In Legislative Enactments.
Many people have the idea that II
one owes IL bill and goes to his debtor
and tells him that he is willing to pay
and then offers some trifling sum on
Hccount say 81 or even less per week
or month, the creditor is obliged to
take it, utterly regardless of the fact
/ that If creditors were obliged to re.
ceive payment in that way it would
put most of them out of business in q
very short period.
There is no such law.
In the minds of very many people.
especially In the country districts.
there is another firmly fixed idea that
if one person strikes another first the
person assaulted may then all bat
pound the other to death.
There is no such law
4 person assaulted has the right to
defend himself, but he may not use
any more force than necessary to do
tliat To use more than necessary
force completely turns the tables. and
the assaulted becomes the aggressor
and liable for his excess of zeal In
damages commensurate with the dam
age done. A person has the right to
order an undesirable person from his
premises and to use sufficient force to
eject him If he does not go when so
ordered. but he has no right to acceler
ate his movements with one or more
well placed kicks.
Many people who owe bills labor un
der strong impression that it Is the
duty Of their creditors to come to them
for their money.
There is no such law.
There is n proverb which says. ''rhe
borrower is servant to the lender
The bank will not come to you II you
owe Il note which it holds for COLES.
ton. Out Of courtesy it will send yon
IL notice that your note is due ut is not
compelled tn do that J. but you must
go to the bank to make payment.
In the country frequently and In
: the city sometimes one is told that
if person dies ieaying children and
grandchildren, the children Of Il de
ceased child. the grandchildren. are not
: entitled to the share of the estate
which their parent would have taken.
; as the father or mother having died
there is no way whereby the inherit
ance can pass over from the deceased
to the grandchildren--in other words
= the line is broken.
There is no such law.
The statutes expressly provide that
the children of deceased heirs take
Z the share that would have gone t.
their parent.
A person owns d fruit tree and itk
branches overhang tire land Of his
neighbor Many think because Of thai
:, the neighbor is entitled to the fruit
: Oh the overhanging branches.
There is no such law.
If the tree sat upon the line be
tween the estates the neighbor wouli
be entitled to one-half Of the fruit
but being wholly on one side the owner
!. is entitled to all the fruit and may q
upon his neighbours land aud gather !
! the neighbor does not like this ar
% rangement he may take his Ak or saw
!. and cut the limbs off ut the line be
~ tween the estates. but he must throw
e them on his neighbours land. as th'
wood of the tree belongs to him, Th
e owner of the tree may not like to hav
T. his tree treated thus. but be canno
help himself.
= Two men own adjacent lots of land
One wishes to have a fence hetweel
them; the other does not Many peOpl
think that one may build the fence AM
compel the other to pay for half OF It
There is no such law.
In such II case one owner may cal
In the fence viewers and have ther
ascertain the line and designate whic
part of the fence each shall builG
" Neither party, however. can compel tn
;, other to build any particular style Q
fence. The mover in the matter ma
;, want a fancy fence but the other ma
q build bis half of any material satis
:. factory to himself, and so long as it
legal fence he cannot be cnmpelle
to build any other.
Il Many shopkeepers demand that fint
.. ers of lost money or valuables in the
stores shall deliver them over to then
4 as they own the articles because the
re were found on their premises.
There is no such law.
as The finder OF money or other vail
abies on the floor outside the counts
in store Is the owner of the san
2" against the whole world except tx
loser, but 1t has been held that II Il
owner left the money or goods upo
ne the counter or on 4 table in the stO
or they were practically in the care !
y the storekeener and he had the rigl
ce to their custody, while he could n
nd make such claim to goods whit
IS were found on the floor.-Bostcn Glob
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