Legal LanguageUniversity of Chicago Press, 1999 - 314 páginas Peter Tiersma's history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. He shows to what extent legalese is a product of its past, when Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, Latin-speaking missionaries, Scandinavian raiders, and Norman invaders all left their marks on the language that lawyers use today. Tiersma suggests, however, that history alone provides an inadequate explanation for the peculiarities of legal language. |
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Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Origins | 7 |
Celts AngloSaxons and Danes | 9 |
The Norman Conquest and the Rise of French | 19 |
The Resurgence of English | 35 |
The Nature of Legal Language | 49 |
Talking Like a Lawyer | 51 |
The Quest for Precision | 71 |
What Makes Legal Language Difficult to Understand? | 201 |
Plain English | 209 |
Communicating with the Jury | 229 |
Conclusion | 239 |
An AngloSaxon Legal Document | 243 |
A Case Report in Law French | 245 |
A Modern Will | 247 |
Excerpts from Jury Instructions in People v Simpson | 249 |
The Legal Lexicon | 87 |
Interpretation and Meaning | 115 |
Variation | 133 |
In the Courtroom | 145 |
Pleadings Constructing the Legal Narrative | 147 |
Testimony and Truth | 153 |
Completing the Story | 181 |
Reforming the Language of the Law | 197 |
Original Citibank Promissory Note | 255 |
Revised Citibank Promissory Note | 259 |
Notes | 261 |
Select Bibliography | 289 |
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General Index | 301 |
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