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An excellent legal contrivance addressing the state of affairs one would have been in had all been well in the world. It starts with “constructive knowledge”: knowledge a prudent chap ought to have had, had he stopped to think about it, when the historical record reveals he did not. This cognitive state which pays no heed to the [[brute facts]] of his imperfect existence, in which his Vauxhall Astra is unapologetically now wrapped around a lamp post he would have, [[in a perfect world]], known was there and diligently avoided. | An excellent legal contrivance addressing the state of affairs one would have been in had all been well in the world. It starts with “constructive knowledge”: knowledge a prudent chap ought to have had, had he stopped to think about it, when the historical record reveals he did not. This cognitive state which pays no heed to the [[brute facts]] of his imperfect existence, in which his Vauxhall Astra is unapologetically now wrapped around a lamp post he would have, [[in a perfect world]], known was there and diligently avoided. | ||
But, like a [[Ferae naturae|bitey wild animal]], or an [[Rylands v Fletcher - Case Note|ordinarily docile, if unkempt, reservoir]], the concept can flood its bulwarks. So the unwilling student assures his enquiring mother that he has ''constructively'' done his homework. | |||
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