Basic English (where "Basic" stands for "British American Scientific International Commercial") is a subset of English with a base vocabulary of 850 words, propounded by C. Ogden in 1929.
Basic English, produced by Mr C. Ogden of the Orthological Institute, is a simple form of the English language which, with 850 words, is able to give the sense of anything which may be said in English.
Basic English was developed by Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957) as an international language' and as a system for teaching English to speakers of other languages using a simplified vocabulary of 850 words.
This book was out-of-print and is relatively old, however, the amount copied weighs heavily against defendant.
This court finds and concludes that the portions copied were critical parts of the books copied, since that is the likely reason the college professors used them in their classes.
Basically, the question in each case is whether the facts alleged, under all the circumstances, show that there is a substantial controversy, between parties having adverse legal interests, of sufficient immediacy and reality to warrant the issuance of a declaratory judgment.