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	[[File:Stripey House.png\|thumb\|right\|when little old ladies make [[excellent]] law.]] [[Anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]] is a {{tag\|Latin}} maxim I made up, with a ''lot'' of help from my excellent [[secret Latin Advisor]]. It means “''little old ladies make bad law''”.		{{maximgeneration}}[[File:Stripey House.png\|thumb\|right\|when little old ladies make [[excellent]] law.]] [[Anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]] is a {{tag\|Latin}} maxim I made up, with a ''lot'' of help from my excellent [[secret Latin Advisor]]. It means “''little old ladies make bad law''”.

	For every good example of this (there is of course {{casenote\|Greenclose\|National Westminster Bank plc}}, and one could argue the entire modern history of [[constructive trust]]s), there are examples where little old ladies make ''excellent'' law, as in the case of the stubborn old lady called who, when refused planning permission for a basement, painted her house stripey in protest. Officious pedants at the council tried to order her to repaint it white, and while they were supported by lower level functionaries in district tribunals, but the Queen’s Bench Division was having ''none'' of it.		For every good example of this (there is of course {{casenote\|Greenclose\|National Westminster Bank plc}}, and one could argue the entire modern history of [[constructive trust]]s), there are examples where little old ladies make ''excellent'' law, as in the case of the stubborn old lady called who, when refused planning permission for a basement, painted her house stripey in protest. Officious pedants at the council tried to order her to repaint it white, and while they were supported by lower level functionaries in district tribunals, but the Queen’s Bench Division was having ''none'' of it.