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This was at the fore of a high profile court case in the United Kingdom (U.K.) in April.

In question was Dan Browns worldwide best-seller.

Baigent and Leigh used six known indisputable historical facts, or supposed facts, though their conclusion was the result of historical conjecture based on those facts.

This quasi-historical approach was also the basis of various other published hypotheses as to the merging of Christs bloodline with the Merovingian bloodline.

It opens with the death - in Paris Louvre museum - of the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, Jacques Sauniere.

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Seeking to solve his murder, the heroes of the story are led on a Grail quest, in which they must unravel a series of puzzles based on the history of the Priory of Sion and on the secret behind Christs bloodline.

Indeed, there was a clear and explicit reference to the book in The Da Vinci Code, and the name of one of the characters, Sir Leigh Teabing, was based on an anagram of the names of the two authors.

Instead, much of the decision was based on the application of established legal principles to the facts at hand.

Since there was little copying of the actual text of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, the claim was that there had been non-literal copying of a substantial part of their literary work.

Moreover, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail is an historical book, or at least it is comprised largely of historical facts which are unprotectable ideas.

Baigent and Leigh based their case, therefore, on the claim that Brown had taken a substantial part of the manner in which they had expressed those ideas, as opposed to taking the ideas themselves.

Rather, they had used The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, and other books, to provide general background material for the writing of The Da Vinci Code.

Using a simple code, including a keyword based on the Fibonacci Sequence employed in the Da Vinci Code, the judges message refers to a World War I British admiral.

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The judge subsequently explained that the admiral was a hero of his, and that the trial coincided with the centenary of the launch of one of the admirals ships.

Never let it be said that English judges are staid and boring.

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