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-Little old ladies make bad law.
+{{a|latin|{{image|Stripey House|png|When little old ladies make ''excellent'' law.}}}}{{maximgeneration}}
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+{{maxim|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 equity — all those [[creatures of equity]] like [[constructive trust]]s), there are examples where little [[old ladies]] make ''excellent'' law, as in the case of the stubborn old lady called Mrs Lisle-Mainwaring 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, the Queen’s Bench Division was having ''none'' of it.
+We at the [[Jolly Contrarian]] are fond of people like Mrs. Lisle-Mainwaring and her spiritual counterpart, [[Albert Haddock]].
+{{sa}}
+*{{casenote|Lisle-Mainwaring|Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea}}
 *{{casenote|Greenclose|National Westminster Bank plc}}
+*{{casenote|Kelly|Solari}}
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