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Old 01-10-2009, 03:39 PM   #27 (permalink)
Bebe
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Originally Posted by mkl View Post
Pretty much everyone agrees that it isn't from that.
Pretty much everyone from the web links you provided
It was used in New Zealand to refer to this law, until fairly recently too. Pretty much all the law professors at the university I taught at would disagree with the Straight Dope Digest
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