Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

> 
> Liz wrote:-
> 
> >By written law, I do not mean a list of laws.
> >I mean the knowledge that when you are brought
> >in for interrogating that there is a real
> >crime on the books that you have been charged
> >with, that was there before you were charged!
> 
> If this is the standard then New Zealand doesn't have a written law
> either. Judges can make up law on the spot to suit the case before
> them and if in the past you transgressed the law they just made up they
> can, and do, punish you for it.

Is that for real???
Weird up the kazoo.

Liz Fried