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.