[D. Scarlatti]

This is a bit pointless. While much of what you say is true, nothing I said was untrue. In fact, the definition I gave originally is essentially what appears in the standard reference texts. So maybe you should take up your complaint with Brian Garner and Kermit Hall.

If I was guilty of any sin it was a sin of omission. But I was commenting on Edward Lazarus's article, which had to do with the Supreme Court making law on the authority of fewer than five of its members, and I didn't think at the time that a thoroughly exhaustive discussion of all the various permutations was either warranted or necessary.