[blml] Ignorantia juris non excusat

[Wayne Burrows]

On 22/07/07, Jerry Fusselman <jfusselman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/21/07, Sven Pran <svenpran at online.no> wrote:
> > > On Behalf Of Wayne Burrows
> > .................
> > > One player regularly doing something does not a partnership agreement
> > > make.
> > >
> > > You seem to have a misunderstanding of the meaning of agreement.
> >
> > >From Law 75B: "habitual violations within a partnership may create implicit
> > agreements, which must be disclosed"
> >
> > Sven
> >
>
> Wayne's statement is strange.  I thought that BLMLers understood that
> the tournament director investigates and decides what the partnership
> agreements are.  He is not required to decide there is no agreement
> even if he is 100% convinced that the pair had no discussion ever on
> the topic in question.  Law 75B is clear and supercedes any dictionary
> definition of agreement.
>

It is clear that an "implicit agreement" is a possibility arising from
"habitual violations".

It is equally clear that "habitual violations" do not necessarily
create "implicit agreements".

Wayne