This is where "possession is 9/10ths of the law" comes from.

I actually think our discussion came from there! Or at least, there was a previous/later discussion about this exactly related to that.

	▲	bombcar 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's one of those "programmer misconceptions" - we want to make reality fit our neat and tidy list of rules/laws/code; but it's the other way around most of the time.