Implications of Casing
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	This is the opinion of a person not formally trained in the law; the author is not a lawyer, but is literate. This is not legal advice.

	With the development of the Latin (Roman) Alphabet, came a new aspect to both the Alphabet and the written language. This new aspect, casing, created a second, duplicate Alphabet, with the same letters, but a different, generally smaller glyph. The two alphabet were used for differing purposes, even in the same piece of writing. Many European languages assumed those parts of the Latin alphabet that suited the purposes of the given language. Rules of which case to use, for a given purpose were made, and generally, as far a casing goes, the written forms of the various languages followed the same rules. In particular, names and other proper nouns had the first character of each name in the upper case (capitalized), as was the first word of each sentence. Signage usually was made in all caps for two reasons, visibility and also because it was assumed that the upper case was more available to the less educated people as it is the older case. These "rules" go back to a time prior to written histories in most if not all languages that have two cases. These rules could be said to be part of the "common-law" of these written languages.

	Eventually, scholars codified these rules in their textbooks and taught these rules to unknown generations of students.
	
	While the author of this paper does not know the legal history of casing in other countries. (Information in this vain is of interest to the author and is requested from those that know.) In the United States, Congress authorized the creation of a "style manual" for the written language. A style manual is a manual of writing rules. Casing is naturally part of the area of perview of style manuals. The style manual produced was published in 1850 was titled, "The Style Manual of the United States". It codified the common style expressed above and is a ratification of those rules but added a new formal rule; that certain entities, regulatable entities, were to have there names fully in the upper case. Examples of these entities that were given were: soldiers, corporations, ships, etc.
	
	This manual was written by an officer of Congress under the explicite authority of Congress and represrents the common-law. It is the rule of all legal documents in the United States. In the common-law processes guaranteed by the Constitution for the United States of America and in the several state constitutions, there is a dilatory plea called misnomer, which can stop a trial process, until the misnomer is corrected. generally if in fact the summons is under a misnomer, and one handles the plea correctly and at the proper time, the case must be dismissed without prejudice. If the party bringing suit wishes, they may resummon you. If one does not make the misnomer objection correctly and at the proper time, the misnomer is allowed to stand for the purposes of the trial. Any question of your Rights, is then actually a question of privilege allowed or not allowed, including "courtroom rights" by the regulating authority, many times the Legislature or Congress. This is because the misnomer which CAST you into the regulatable CASTE by the CASING of your name was allowed to stand for the record of the court.
	
	Case means box.
	
	Do not rely on the style manual published by the government printing office in the 1990's. In that misleading guide, the section on casing starts out with an outright lie and obviously obfuscates the truth of the matter. If this is not true, how come teachers for generations and the Congress of the 1840's and 1850's were able to be clear on the casing of names, and the "new" style manual admits for itself that it can't be clear on the rules of casing.
	
	One other point. If you miscase someone's name, and it causes them damage, you might find yourself on the wrong end of a law suit. People, even under the auspices of another party, should not wrongfully case someone and certainly without being sure of the proper case for the entity in question, regardless of the incorrect reasons given for miscasing someone's name. It would be a good idea to go to your nearest law library and see the exect rules in the 1850 manual for yourself, especially if you are in a position to have to make a decision over-ruling somebody's desire to be caste one way or another.
	
	In an interesting aside, newspapers and media commonly miscase military personnel in there articles (they ussually have their own private style mabuals), So a private, say PVT.J.SMITH would be printed Pvt. J. Smith or a GEN. J. ADAMS would be Gen. J. Adams. It is ironic that the media would get it right by getting it wrong.
