[blml] Minor/Major [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"The angels keep their ancient places;
- Turn but a stone, and start a wing!
'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces 
That miss the many-splendoured thing."
                         [Francis Thompson]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel" <Guthrie at NTLworld.com>
To: "BLML" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Minor/Major [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


> 
> If you dip into the current rules you sometimes feel that they are 
> *deliberately* ambiguous. The impression is that law-makers disagreed 
> and neither side would budge. So the protagonists agreed on a woolly 
> compromise that could be interpreted to accord with their conflicting 
> positions. This would be a disservice to directors and completely unfair 
> to players. I reckon that players would prefer that law-makers tossed a 
> coin rather than descend to such a dishonourable fudge. Please let there 
> be no hint of this kind of compromise in the new edition of the laws.
> 
+=+ It is certainly the aim now that any compromise should not be "woolly".
At times Edgar foresaw the danger that a law which the committee was 
intent on installing would not go down well on his home patch. In 
consequence he sometimes looked for wording that would allow of 
latitude in application. 
                                     ~ Grattan ~   +=+