I want to change my name from
Billy Johnson
to
“PLAINTIFF, ET. AL.”
That’s in all caps!
Why?
To be powerful in the courts. That’s why.
Well, not really! But it would be entertaining.
But first, Social Security and your income tax.
Do you really want to be a non-taxpayer?
Do you have what it takes?
I am from the family of (X).
The ALL CAPS name is not me.
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A dissection of the ALL-CAPS belief.
I use the word ‘belief’, rather than the word ‘argument’, because it’s not an argument. It’s dead in the water—stillborn.
“I’ll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
Francisco – Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Hour 2
For three easy payments for $33.33 . . .
I will teach you how to stop the courts from using the ALL-CAPS name for you, the flesh and blood litigant.
Larry Becraft – Destroyed Arguments
This is a valuable resource. Archive what you can.
https://home.hiwaay.net/%7Ebecraft/deadissues.htm
Below is a thread from a defunct yahoo group
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The Norman Conquest of England happened in 1066, long before the invention of the printing press. Records of civil and criminal cases at that time and for centuries thereafter were thus kept on paper, hand-written.
When printing presses became widely available, historians and printers began the publication of old, historical cases. A trip to a well-stocked law library enables anyone to examine and read these old publications. One work that published old, historical criminal cases is named State Trials, and the most prominent publishers of State Trials were Cobbett and Howell.
These works are available on Google Books. I attach as a PDF image extracts from State Trials.
The first case in State Trials is that of Thomas Becket, who was prosecuted for high treason in 1163 AD.
The second is that involving Hubert De Burgh, who was prosecuted in 1239. The third case is that of Piers Gaveston, prosecuted in 1307. The fourth case is that of Hugh Le Despencer, prosecuted in 1320.
The fifth is Adam De Orleton, prosecuted for treason in 1323. The sixth case was also a treason prosecution against Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, in 1322.
The final case in this PDF concerns King Edward II, prosecuted in 1327 for a multiple of offenses best described as “ruling by bad governance”.
The last page of this PDF is from the table of contents for Vol. 2 of State Trials. Please notice the cases of Sir Walter Raleigh as well as that of Guy Fawkes and the others involved in the Gunpowder Plot. I have highlighted in yellow the styles of these cases, which incidentally are all in CAPS.
Here is my question for you: did your theory regarding names in CAPS have its origins prior to the year 1163?
Larry Becraft 6 Feb 2016
Defunct Yahoo Group (available upon request)
Poem – The 5th of november
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a reader asks Larry Becraft
On 1/23/2016 3:19 PM, Lee Sands wrote:
Larry,
Please define the difference between a legal fiction and a “natural person”, i.e. a flesh and blood man or woman. In your opinion, are men and women corporations?
By what mechanism do people become considered “juristic persons”?
What is your definition of the difference between them, and how they are legally treated in law?
How would you refer to each in a suit, where in one case defendant was a “natural person”, and in another a “juristic person” as defined in various statutes?
What is the difference between a “corporate person”, i.e. a juristic “person”, and a man or woman?
States will not issue corporations in upper and lower case names, nor will a bank account, a SS card, driver’s license, birth certificate or a credit card.
Every bill you get is always addressed to the name in all capital letters, including Utility bills , Cable Bills, Insurance policy’s etc.
As these issues are more or less at the heart of most of the Guru info, please explain if you can, so everyone can put these issues to rest.
As you stated, in today’s computerized world it is easy to address issues, names etc., quite easily in Upper and lower case, it would seem there is a different reason for all these matters conducted in commerce to use the all caps when they could just as easily, not.
Best, L
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Larry becraft responds
. . . (several preceeding paragraphs not posted here).
Another example of guru deception is the “everything is admiralty” argument, at times expressed as follows:
“An astute observer might question as to how the Federal govt. can enforce the Law of the Sea here on the land. That fete was accomplished by having the U.S. Coast Guard survey the entire continental united States in 1938 [coincides with some important Supreme Court decisions] and designating the top of Pikes Peak as the high water mark.
Now they can fictitiously operate Maritime/Admiralty courts on the land although you will never find a judge who will admit to that.”
This assertion that Pike’s Peak is the high water mark for admiralty jurisdiction is perhaps one of the most ridiculous fabrications ever promoted by the crackpot gurus.
I suspect that if this argument was proffered to a judge, he would immediately conclude that the party making it was possibly insane.
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Notice these cases are not in all-caps
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Here are rulings from several appellate state courts the don’t use all-caps in their captions for the litigants. Notice that state and corporation names are also in proper-case. So too, in the body of the texts.
Style Guides
Illinois makes everything more complicated than most.
Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 (1906)
Dicta, dictum, and overruled cases don’t control the courts. But you can learn a lot about the grand jury with this oldie and moldy case.
Do this search yourself.
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