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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.

Legal Language

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    A Paperback / softback by Peter M. Tiersma

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/05/2000
      ISBN13: 9780226803036, 978-0226803036
      ISBN10: 0226803031
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      Book Synopsis
      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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