The only person's whose advice has "weight of law", ADVICE, is an attorney general. You thought it was a judge. You are completely ignorant.
However normal people who seek legal advice go to attorneys, and they typically reasonably rely on that legal advice. Your logic would destroy the entire legal system.
But that's because you are incredibly ignorant.
I realize that you think being pedantic is "winning", but you've missed a few details.
I was not discussing "advice" when I mentioned a judge.
Yes you were. And judges don't go figure out the "law" on their own. opposing counsel do all of the work for them, and t hen the judge, and more accurately, his/her clerk, decides which law or interpretation of it to use. Judges are referees and not much more. You have virtually no understanding of the legal system.
I can almost guarantee that I understand our legal system better than you ever will.
But that is entirely irrelevant to the point of this conversation.
Would you like to continue pedantically derail your own nonsense thread?