Rule of Thumb

[TooOne21]

What is the real meaning of the phrase "Rule of Thumb?"

Link <--- Look here for the debunk of the "wife-beating"

This is the most realistic I have found, your thought?

Edit

 

[Heisenberg]

It was the biggest stick you could hit your wife with legally IIRC.

 

[Ogg]

EDITamn he wins.....


snipped......"Some have claimed that this phrase has its origins in a British common law rule which, supposedly, allowed husbands to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than their thumb. The British common law is part of a legal tradition which was a continuously evolving set of rules, set out in decisions on cases brought in English common law courts. It forms a large part of the basis of modern English and American law, as well as influencing the law in other, less important places. "

 

[TooOne21]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
It was the biggest stick you could hit your wife with legally IIRC.

Read the Link I posted above.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Boondock Saints anyone?

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
Boondock Saints anyone?

Great flick.

 

[MegaloManiaK]

Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
Boondock Saints anyone?

Thats the first place i had ever heard the wifebeating definition.

 

[TooOne21]

Originally posted by: awg
EDITamn he wins.....


snipped......"Some have claimed that this phrase has its origins in a British common law rule which, supposedly, allowed husbands to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than their thumb. The British common law is part of a legal tradition which was a continuously evolving set of rules, set out in decisions on cases brought in English common law courts. It forms a large part of the basis of modern English and American law, as well as influencing the law in other, less important places. "

He doesn't win..

 

[Ogg]

But the wife beating def is so much cooler than the carpentry one........pppfffffftttttt







edit: he won the post first battle
then you edited too

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: TooOne21

Originally posted by: awg
EDITamn he wins.....


snipped......"Some have claimed that this phrase has its origins in a British common law rule which, supposedly, allowed husbands to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than their thumb. The British common law is part of a legal tradition which was a continuously evolving set of rules, set out in decisions on cases brought in English common law courts. It forms a large part of the basis of modern English and American law, as well as influencing the law in other, less important places. "

He doesn't win..

I never claimed to be right. I was just saying what I remembered it as.

 

[TooOne21]

So no one knows?:disgust:

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: TooOne21
So no one knows?:disgust:

knows what?