From: ericzen (ericzen_at_ez-net.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 01:05:22 EST
On 2003.11.25 16:55 r coyne wrote:
>
>
> Legal encyclopedias (CJS, AmJur) have numerous pages
> consisting primarily of footnotes (string cites for
> the "black letter" statement in the text), with only a
> line or two of maintext at the top, if that. And
> footnotes are routinely run over from page to page.
> Usually there are several notes on the page, so none
> is individually bigger than a page, but I would not be
> surprised to find the occasional one that is longer
> than a page -- though I couldn't cite you to an
> example offhand, not having the books in front of me.
> And plenty of law students do (usually ill-advisedly)
> write in this style.
I think the point was not that of several pages of footnotes, but that of a single footnote taking more than one page.
Speaking as someone who's forgotten times when abusing the Appendix would be a good idea, I haven't SERIOUSLY (I emphasise the seriously, for humour-related reasons, I have long surpassed that) produced a lone footnote of that size.
-Eric
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