H.E. Bates Companion

An unsuccessful landowner attempts to keep his land, but collapses and dies while protesting his plight before a Parish Council meeting. The title is drawn from legal terminology quoted by the Council chairman. Perhaps because of the similarity in theme to "Day's End, the story was one of three early tales not selected for Bates's first collection, Day's End and Other Stories. As with "Day's End," the lead character may be based on Bates's maternal grandfather, George William Lucas. "In The Spring Song and In View of the Fact That (1927).