tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post2813017681217142243..comments2024-03-25T09:03:39.020-07:00Comments on The Uncrushable Jersey Dress: Nanny by Chance - Discussion ThreadBetty Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-84311899111536454092011-03-29T16:46:07.346-07:002011-03-29T16:46:07.346-07:00I had a case involving a property that had escheat...I had a case involving a property that had escheated. I had to look that one up before proceeding!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604612970156243425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-83717617912217280882011-03-29T11:57:25.015-07:002011-03-29T11:57:25.015-07:00Such a great word, Betty Miranda. Almost as good ...Such a great word, Betty Miranda. Almost as good as <i>escheat</i>, defined as <i>to confiscate</i>, or as a noun, <i>property that falls to the feudal lord or to the state for lack of an heir or by forfeiture; the reversion of property in this way; plunder or gain (obs; Spenser excheat)</i><br /><br />An escheator was someone who watched over escheats.<br /><br />And the best part is that exeat has three syllables, just as you would suppose: EX-ee-at, but escheat just has two: ES-cheet.<br /><br />You just have to love the English language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-63931169225293253672011-03-29T08:43:11.134-07:002011-03-29T08:43:11.134-07:00Betty Magdalen, I actually use exeat in my current...Betty Magdalen, I actually use exeat in my current manuscript.Miranda Nevillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08542553244957079317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-49227522299461228462011-03-28T09:14:07.439-07:002011-03-28T09:14:07.439-07:00I think Marcus just used the wrong phrase -- he...I think Marcus just used the wrong phrase -- he's not <i>in loco parentis</i>, he responsible for her as her host. She is, in legal terms, a business invitee, and as such is owed by him greater responsibility than he would have, say, to a trespasser or someone walking past on the pavement. Whether that responsibility extends to keeping her from getting her feelings hurt is another matter.<br /><br />I knew about exeats! I have my own personal wikis: Wiki Ross and Wiki Henry. LOL<br /><br />Movies run in the UK a good 6 months to a year after they run in the US, so she could have been seeing a movie from a year earlier. (Obviously if the movie was made in the UK that might be different.) But your point is still spot on (I'm just full of these Britishisms today!) -- a horror film is so not the right movie for a Neels heroine on her own in a dark & lonely seaside town.<br /><br />I'll try to remember this when I finish <b><i>Saturday's Child</i></b> but she's in Amsterdam nursing Professor de Wit and there's a Paul Temple show on TV. I asked Ross, but he had no recollection. Turns out to have been a series from 1969 -- Ross's parents didn't have a TV for many years and anyway he was at a horrid boys' school then -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Temple" rel="nofollow">here's the Wiki page</a> as Wiki Ross didn't come through for me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com