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Old 05-31-2017, 05:45 PM   #1
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Somebody would have to administer a common fund though.



Once has to wonder if that level of legal detail was handed down by the Kings of Arnor or if that was something that developed among the hobbits themselves.
It is not hard to believe that some form of legal or banking firms were started in the Shire. After all the auctioneer/law firm of Messrs. Grubb, Grubb and Burrowes indicates a partnership, the early rudiment of incorporation. The fact that there were wills duly witnessed and in legalese indicates the sinister shadow of lawyers lurking in Hobbiton.
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Old 05-31-2017, 06:03 PM   #2
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The fact that there were wills duly witnessed and in legalese indicates the sinister shadow of lawyers lurking in Hobbiton.
Undoubtedly how Saruman gained his foothold.

Sackville-Baggins sounds like the name of a legal firm if ever I heard one.
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*Mithadan begins to prepare a writ of capias and petition for bodily arrest. Sinister lawyers... indeed!
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Old 06-28-2017, 07:46 AM   #4
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The fact that there were wills duly witnessed and in legalese indicates the sinister shadow of lawyers lurking in Hobbiton.

Indeed T somewhere wrote that Otho Sackville-Baggins was a lawyer.
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