"Sir Thomas More (when a student on his travels) is said to have
puzzled a pragmatic professor at Bruges, who gave a universal challenge
to dispute with any person in any science: in omni scibili, et de
quolibet ente. Upon which Mr. More sent him this question, 'Utrum
averia carucæ, capta in vetito namio, sint irreplegibilia, Whether
beasts of the plough, taken in withernam, are incapable of being
replevied:'"
--a question likely enough to pose any man except an English lawyer.