Legal Language

Legal Language

Author: Peter M. Tiersma

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780226803036

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This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.