The Language of the Law

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Wipf and Stock Publishers, 13 mei 2004 - 540 pagina's
This book tells what the language of the law is, how it got that way and how it works out in the practice. The emphasis is more historical than philosophical, more practical than pedantic.
 

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CHAPTER I
3
Language of the law not English
9
CHAPTER
11
Use of French words not in the general vocabulary
15
Frequent use of formal words
19
Deliberate use of words and expressions with flexible mean ings
20
Attempts at extreme precision
22
CHAPTER III
24
The Georgian legislation
132
CHAPTER X
136
The age of the written word
138
Languages of the new literacy
142
The translation of Latin
144
Background for andor
147
Punctuation and the oral tradition
152
The tale that English statutes were once unpunctuated
157

Unclear
25
Pompous
27
Dull
28
PART TWO HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE LAW CHAPTER IV
33
England as the point of departure
34
CHAPTER V
36
Celtic survives the Roman occupation
37
A pattern of language mixture
38
AngloSaxon beginnings
39
Laws for illiterates
41
The law gets rhythm
42
AngloSaxon Old English
45
Law words from AngloSaxon Old English
46
Heathen into Christian
49
Vikings and the law
51
More Old Norse law words
54
Common Old English in the language of the law
55
The place and problem of Old English
57
CHAPTER VI
60
William the Conqueror
61
The tale that William made French the language of the law
63
Written language after the Conquest
65
Spoken language after the Conquest
67
Norman influence on literature and learning
69
CHAPTER VII
70
THE LAW AND LATIN 45 The Norman impetus to Latin
71
The varieties of Latin
72
A definition
73
in words
75
Latin additions and duplications
76
Latin names for lawyers
79
The habit of written Latin
81
CHAPTER VIII
83
A disorderly language
84
Court hand and abbreviations
86
Land law important
88
The phrasing of documents
91
CHAPTER IX
95
French into general English
97
Profession of law and law French ascendant
98
Old French
101
Legal relatives of Old French
103
A definition
105
French not at first a technical language
106
The growth of technicality
109
The first regulation of the language of the law
111
Aftermath of the Statute of Pleading
112
Transition from oral French to English
114
The start of paper pleadings
116
More law French into English
118
The grand mixture of languages
120
The laws habit of doubling words
121
Tenacity of law French
122
Commonwealth language reform
125
Aftermath of Commonwealth language reform
128
Diminishing need for French
130
Legal punctuation for meaning
164
Unhurried prose
170
The law of evidence
171
Lose a syllable lose the cause
174
Harshness of the law
176
The expanding law
178
Complex rules of pleading
183
Three hogsheads of cyder
185
The piecework system
186
Padding
190
The unreformed law
192
The unreformed profession
194
Law and language as the colonists had known them
201
Words of the New World
204
Few lawyers came to America
208
The transplanted language of the law
212
Colonial variation
215
Growth of the profession
219
Lay opinion of the profession
225
The yearning for simplicity
229
The tenacity of form
234
The lawyers role in the development of language
238
American punctuation
247
A lawyers protest against legal form
252
Law language in the Old West
256
Jeremy Bentham
261
The mountainous law
266
New words old habits
270
The spread of formula
275
PART THREE USING THE LANGUAGE OF THE LAW CHAPTER XII
285
Precision unlimited
290
What is precise?
295
Exact or exactlythesameway?
297
The traditional way
298
it ever have a definite meaning?
301
Some continuously vague archaisms
304
Does it have a definite meaning now?
325
Does this way make meaning more exact than ordinary Eng lish?
345
Worthless doubling
349
The pattern of twowordsforone
363
Punctuation
366
The tradition of precision by precedent
374
Precision and requirement
383
The small area
387
The impossible and the undesirable
393
CHAPTER XIV
399
Contagious verbosity
404
CHAPTER XV
415
To make the language fit
423
CHAPTER XVI
437
Impressive
446
The priesthood
453
Selected Bibliography
455
Word and Phrase Index
479
General Index
499
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Over de auteur (2004)

A graduate of Stanford and Harvard Law School, a successful lawyer, and Professor of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles, David Mellinkoff made significant progress in the battle against verbose legal language. He died in December of 2000 at age 85.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelThe Language of the Law
AuteurDavid Mellinkoff
Editieherdruk
UitgeverWipf and Stock Publishers, 2004
ISBN1592446906, 9781592446902
Lengte540 pagina's
  
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