F**k the Rule Against Perpetuities! Forum

[Verity]

Only B-school kids like perps.

[TCScrutinizer]

RAP anecdote:

On one of my call backs, a partner asked me what the RAP was. I am so glad my professor made us memorize the rule.

Needless to say, got an offer on the spot.

Lesson: memorize the RAP!

"No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than 21 years after the death of some life in being at the creation of the interest" got you a job?

Damn.

And if the RAP is hard, I clearly need to pursue property law as a career path.

The RAP is so hard that it's not malpractice in California for a lawyer to screw it up. If you didn't think it was hard, then you were being fed softball questions.

I'd say it's challenging, but I find the RAP interesting and sort of fun to think about, so it's difficult to conceive of it as "hard". I highly doubt I was given softballs in class.

[soaponarope]

RAP anecdote:

On one of my call backs, a partner asked me what the RAP was. I am so glad my professor made us memorize the rule.

Needless to say, got an offer on the spot.

Lesson: memorize the RAP!

"No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than 21 years after the death of some life in being at the creation of the interest" got you a job?

Damn.

And if the RAP is hard, I clearly need to pursue property law as a career path.

The RAP is so hard that it's not malpractice in California for a lawyer to screw it up. If you didn't think it was hard, then you were being fed softball questions.

I highly doubt I was given softballs in class.

You wouldn't know one way or the other (unless you completed RAP problems outside of your property class which were similar/equal to/ harder). And by your own admission, you have some doubt to whether or not your property classed gave you "softball questions," thus a reasonable inference is that you did not practice RAP problems outside of your class because if you did then you would know with absolute certainty that the RAP problems in your property class were not of a "softball" nature.

[TCScrutinizer]

I highly doubt I was given softballs in class.

You wouldn't know one way or the other (unless you completed RAP problems outside of your property class which were similar/equal to). And by your own admission, you have some doubt to whether or not your property classed gave you "softball questions," thus a reasonable inference is that you did not practice RAP problems outside of your class because if you did then you would know with absolute certainty that the RAP problems in your property class were not of a "softball" nature.

Brutal cross, counselor. Unfortunately, far from the mark. I did, in fact, practice a lot of property questions outside of class, including RAP questions. Perhaps you should learn that "reasonable inferences" spring necessarily from "reasonable" amounts of information.

Let's put it this way: I'm sure that in the universe of RAP questions, there were more difficult ones than I got in class... but I didn't find them. If you're looking for absolute certainty, I suggest a life plan that doesn't involve further education.

[soaponarope]

I highly doubt I was given softballs in class.

You wouldn't know one way or the other (unless you completed RAP problems outside of your property class which were similar/equal to). And by your own admission, you have some doubt to whether or not your property classed gave you "softball questions," thus a reasonable inference is that you did not practice RAP problems outside of your class because if you did then you would know with absolute certainty that the RAP problems in your property class were not of a "softball" nature.

Brutal cross, counselor. Unfortunately, far from the mark. I did, in fact, practice a lot of property questions outside of class, including RAP questions. Perhaps you should learn that "reasonable inferences" spring necessarily from "reasonable" amounts of information.

Let's put it this way: I'm sure that in the universe of RAP questions, there were more difficult ones than I got in class... but I didn't find them. If you're looking for absolute certainty, I suggest a life plan that doesn't involve further education.

An absence of a fact is indeed a fact... don't be mad at me because you were imprecise in the language you used... counselor.

[fatduck]

i'm about to hold both of you in contempt for not laughing at my amazing joke, counselors

[soaponarope]

i'm about to hold both of you in contempt for not laughing at my amazing joke, counselors

I'm just trollin, so I ought to be held in contempt.

As for the joke, I laffed.

[TCScrutinizer]

I highly doubt I was given softballs in class.

You wouldn't know one way or the other (unless you completed RAP problems outside of your property class which were similar/equal to). And by your own admission, you have some doubt to whether or not your property classed gave you "softball questions," thus a reasonable inference is that you did not practice RAP problems outside of your class because if you did then you would know with absolute certainty that the RAP problems in your property class were not of a "softball" nature.

Brutal cross, counselor. Unfortunately, far from the mark. I did, in fact, practice a lot of property questions outside of class, including RAP questions. Perhaps you should learn that "reasonable inferences" spring necessarily from "reasonable" amounts of information.

Let's put it this way: I'm sure that in the universe of RAP questions, there were more difficult ones than I got in class... but I didn't find them. If you're looking for absolute certainty, I suggest a life plan that doesn't involve further education.

An absence of a fact is indeed a fact... don't be mad at me because you were imprecise in the language you used... counselor.

Are you my wife's troll account?