[bushpilot1]

Professor..Henry the V.. "at honour would thee do, were all thy children kind and natural!"

[sometime lurker]

Which proves nothing. SCOTUS has been clear (Rogers v Bellei) that the US follows the English common law in this matter. There are statements by US Attorney's general and early legal scholars saying the same thing. Your bizarre idea that somehow the word "kind" negates legal opinions is just that - bizarre.