Ministry of Defence Main Building (United Kingdom) each and cost £12,600. Similar figures representing "air" and "fire" were intended to be installed at the south end of the building, however these were never constructed. During the 1950s, building staff nicknamed the statues "Mr and Mrs Parkinson", after Cyril Northcote Parkinson, the Board of Trade civil servant who devised Parkinson's Law which states "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". More recently MOD staff refer to the statues as the "two fat ladies". The badge of the RAF is carved into stone columns either side of the southern entrance to the building, reflecting
Abstraction principle (law) the canon law maxim "solo consensus obligat", under which the meeting of the minds in a contract of sale is sufficient both to create obligations and convey title. This includes mainly jurisdictions that have adopted or been influenced by the Napoleonic Code, e.g. France, Louisiana, Quebec, Spain, Portugal, French-speaking Africa, much of Latin America, etc. Abstraction principle (law) The abstract system of title transfer (German "Abstraktionsprinzip") is a legal term in German law relating to the law of obligations ("Schuldrecht") and property law ("Eigentumsrecht"). Although no express reference to it is made in the German Civil Code (BGB), the concept