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To: jbe who wrote (2499)	5/21/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

What you actually wrote was: Twenty lashes, both of you. Which is not a sentence at all. For which error alone, made on this thread, you get ten lashes. Since it is not a sentence, it is impossible to apply strictly the rules of grammatical construction to it. If I wrote in a will "Twenty dollars, both of my sons," aside from recommending that I be disbarred for incompetence, what do you think a judge would do? Probably start by recasting it to say "I give, bequeath, and devise twenty dollars to both of my sons, or to the issue of either of them who predeceases leaving issue, per stirpes, said gift to lapse as to any son who shall predecease me not leaving issue." But even then the judge has to decide whether each son gets $20.00 or the sons split $20. My bet is that the sons would split $20, the judge reasoning that if the decedent had meant to leave each son $20 he would have said so.