Legal Language

By - Tiersma, Peter Meijes

Floor - Floor 1

Published - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999

ISBN 10 - 0226803031

ISBN 13 - 9780226803036

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Law--Interpretation and construction

Shelf No - 18

Call Number - 340.14 TIE

Physical Description - vii, 314 pages ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes Index

Book Information

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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