[annalex]

a hoot

From Aquinas, (on his feast day):

Law is a rule and measure of acts, whereby man is induced to act or is restrained from acting.

(Source:Pursuit of Liberty: Question 90. The essence of law )

Righfulness is an attribute of acts.

[cornelis]

If A is B and B is C and C is D and D is E and E is F . . . then Eureka! F is A!

So much for the poem I learned in college, "It all depends on the red wheel barrow . . . "

But what if B follows A . . .