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The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities: one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey"). [1]
Thwaytes v Sotheby's [2015] EWHC 36 is an English High Court art law case, concerning the liability in negligence and breach of contract of a leading auction house for the professional opinions and valuations they provide where an interested art historian later has a different opinion affecting its value.
John Coggeshall was the son of John and Ann (Butter) Coggeshall. He was born and raised in northeastern Essex, England, and baptised at Halstead. [1] After his marriage, he lived four miles (six km) away in Castle Hedingham where several of his children were baptised, and where he was a merchant prior to his emigration.
Malcolm G. Chace IV, his siblings and their children allege that the late Kim Chace was unduly influenced to alter his will just days before his death. One of RI's richest families roiled by new ...
In England and Wales, only 7% of mottes were taller than 10 metres (33 feet) high; 24% were between 10 and 5 metres (33 and 16 ft), and 69% were less than 5 metres (16 feet) tall. [13] A motte was protected by a ditch around it, which would typically have also been a source of the earth and soil for constructing the mound itself.
In 1854, he married Jane C. Moon, and they had three children: Anna H., Elizabeth M. and Susan A. (the latter deceased). [1] He was also the nephew of famed 19th century abolitionist Elizabeth Buffum Chace and had himself been active in the Underground Railroad during his time in Philadelphia, where he operated a dry goods store. [2]
[1] A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle, with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.
Malcolm Greene Chace (March 12, 1875 – July 16, 1955) was an American financier and textile industrialist who was instrumental in bringing electric power to New England. [1] He was a pioneer of the sport of ice hockey in the United States, and was Yale University 's first hockey captain.