On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 19:49 +0000, omd wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn > > I had a vague memory of a rule which said that a CAN without mechanism > > was treated as CAN by announcement, but there is no such rule. Was > > there ever? Anyway, I will fix. > > IIRC there was a CFJ about this recently, but good form is to have 'by > announcement'.
For others following along at home, that's CFJ 3425, judged by G.: On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 20:46 +0000, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Note that this is not directly and officially "by announcement" > exactly, as the last paragraph of R478 reserves that for cases > where "CAN by announcement" is actually stated. Instead, the > "attempt" is performed by announcement, which then causes the > action to succeed. So, strictly and technically speaking, the > "attempt" is by announcement, and the attempt causes the action to > succeed, but that's not *quite* the same as the action being > performed by announcement.
