When Do Humans Come Into Being?
Football club faces eviction due to death of King Edward VII's last grandchild - Telegraph
A town football club faces eviction from its ground under an eccentric clause which stated the lease would expire 21 years after death of King Edward VII's last grandchild.
... the wealthy local woman who bequeathed the ground to the club in 1922 included a condition which said the land should pass back to the town 21 years after the death of King Edward's last grandchild, who became King Olav V of Norway.
The deadline, which passed yesterday, has proven controversial and the debate over the club’s future is far from settled.
The key clause stipulates that the 21-year limit should run from the day of the death of the last descendent who was “in being” at the time it was signed.
The club’s lawyers point out that the 7th Earl of Harewood, George Lascelles, had been conceived and was a few months from birth at that stage and therefore, they argue, can be considered to be “in being”.
Lord Harewood, a cousin of the Queen, died aged 88 in July last year, which, according to the club’s argument, means the lease should run for a further 20 years....
Conception or birth or somewhere in between? It's not just football clubs that want to know.