Tiersma, Peter M. 1952-2014

Legal language / Peter M. Tiersma. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999. - vii, 314 páginas ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-298) and indexes.

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.

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Law--Language.
Law--Interpretation and construction.

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