There have been a series of meetings today, and lots of networking with my colleagues. Tomorrow and Thursday will be the busiest days of this trip, meeting with our elected officials and attending governance meetings. I am a totally happy guy to be here, to be learning, to be listening, and to be taking the message of REALTOR® and property owner concerns to the folks that are making and enforcing the governance of all of us. Happy to do it! And then there is the down time. It is precious, and it has to be taken when you can get it. So, for lunch, Melinda and Steve and I had lunch at a DC landmark, Ben's Chili Bowl. This was, to quote Steve, the first time I have ever stood in line out close to the street, for a chili cheese dog. But it was good, the place was interesting, and the clientele was diverse. A true American institution!Precatory -- Adjective. expressing a wish. "As a so-called precatory proposal, it is not legally binding on the company." Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times, March 2, 2014
Did You Know? Nowadays, you're most likely to see precatory used in legal contexts to distinguish statements that merely express a wish from those that create a legal obligation. For example, if you add a provision to your will asking someone to take care of your pet if you die, that provision is merely precatory. Outside of jurisprudence, you might see references to such things as "precatory dress codes" or "precatory stockholder proposals," all of which are non-binding. Precatory traces to the Latin precari ("to pray"), and it has always referred to something in the nature of an entreaty or supplication. For example, while a laudatory hymn is one that gives praise, a precatory hymn is one that beseeches - as in "from sin and sorrow set us free."
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