One Sentence 256 words Long!

This is the longest sentence that i have ever some across. It is from section 12 of the Conveyancing ACT NSW 1919 and was written about 100 years ago:

Any absolute assignment by writing under the hand of the assignor (not purporting to be by way of charge only) of any debt or other legal chose in action, of which express notice in writing has been given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor would have been entitled to receive or claim such debt or chose in action, shall be, and be deemed to have been effectual in law (subject to all equities which would have been entitled to priority over the right of the assignee if this Act had not passed) to pass and transfer the legal right to such debt or chose in action from the date of such notice, and all legal and other remedies for the same, and the power to give a good discharge for the same without the concurrence of the assignor: Provided always that if the debtor, trustee, or other person liable in respect of such debt or chose in action has had notice that such assignment is disputed by the assignor or anyone claiming under the assignor, or of any other opposing or conflicting claims to such debt or chose in action, the debtor, trustee or other person liable shall be entitled, if he or she thinks fit, to call upon the several persons making claim thereto to interplead concerning the same, or he or she may, if he or she thinks fit, pay the same into court under and in conformity with the provisions of the Acts for the relief of trustees.

CONVEYANCING ACT 1919 - SECT 12 Assignments of debts and choses in action

The way legislation is formatted has come a long way in 100 years.

 

... or judgements handed down in court. some have no punctuation etc and become very hard to follow.

 

256 is a special number..... (Details taken from wikipedia)

256 (two hundred [and] fifty-six) is the natural number following 255 and preceding 257.



Contents
[1In mathematics

• 2In computing

• 3In other fields

• 4References

In mathematics
256 is a composite number, with the factorization 256 = 28, which makes it a power of two.

• 256 is 4 raised to the 4th power, so in tetration notation 256 is 24.[1]
• 256 is a perfect square (162).
• 256 is the only 3-digit number that is zenzizenzizenzic. It is 2 to the 8th power or {\displaystyle ((2^{2})^{2})^{2}}.
• 256 is the lowest number that is a product of eight prime factors.

In computing
One octet (in most cases one byte) is equal to eight bits and has 28 or 256 possible values, counting from 0 to 255. The number 256 often appears in computer applications (especially on 8-bit systems) such as:

• The typical number of different values in each color channel of a digital color image (256 values for red, 256 values for green, and 256 values for blue used for 24-bit color) (see color space or Web colors).
• The number of colors available in a GIF or a 256-color (8-bit) bitmap.
• The number of characters in extended ASCII[2] and Latin-1.[3]
• The number of columns available in a Microsoft Excel worksheet until Excel 2007.[4]
• The split-screen level in Pacman, which results from the use of a single byte to store the internal level counter.
• A 256-bit integer can represent up to 1.1579209e+77 values.[5]
• Number of bits in the SHA-256 cryptographic hash.
• The branding number of nVidia's GeForce 256

In other fields
256 is also:

• The number of characters in the new Braille 8-dot system.
• An area code in Alabama.
• The number of NFL regular season football games.[6]
• The frequency of Middle C in hertz under scientific pitch.[7]
• The number of the Amarna letter EA 256, which, according to David Rohl, was written by Ishbaal[8] and contains mentions of King David, Jesse, and Joab.[9]
• The number of captured Viet Cong in the song "Three-Five-Zero-Zero" of the musical Hair.[10][unreliable source?]
• The number of soldiers in the most basic unit (the syntagma) of the Macedonian army.[11]
• The number used by short track speed skating Olympian Apolo Ohno.[12][13]
• The number of players online in Domination mode in the game MAG.[14]
• The number of Catch Cards in the video game Super Paper Mario.
• The number of dots to collect in "PAC-MAN 256".
• The number value in Hebrew Gematria of the word רָנּוּ (ronna) (meaning "sing"), which appears in Jeremiah 31:6, "Sing with gladness for Jacob," and was associated with a prophecy of the return of the Messiah in the Hebrew year 4856 (1095–1096), which was close to the 256th lunar cycle (each cycle lasting 19 years), when the Jews were persecuted during the First Crusade.[15]
• The number of Odùs in the Ifá Corpus.
• .256 Winchester Magnum, short-lived firearm cartridge

 

maybe people back then had higher lung capacity

 

Reverend Michael Curry might have tried to have a crack at it at a recent wedding... <yawn>

 

One of legalese's proudest achievement is obfuscation with lengthy statements that consumes disproportionate amount of time required for comprehension!

 

If civilians could understand the law....

 

So true!

 

I can't get the link to work. Has it worked for others?

 

No doesn't work for me either

 

Geoff that is about Life imprisonment in Australia...

 

Ah, I get it now!

 

Must have been a ruse to allow legal eagles to rack up billable hours.

"Yes Mr Client, that much time was spent reading and considering."

 

Ought to read Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. One sentence is ~800 words.