[PDF] On Legislative Expression Or The Language Of Written Law eBook

Author : George Coode
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category : Bill drafting
ISBN : 9781230439686

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... The Tenant may deduct the money so paid out of his rent and shall be acquitted and discharged for so much money as he has so paid. or there may be many legal subjects, and many legal actions, applied to all the same subjects: in this case also there may be several copula; as, EVKRV 8URVEYOR, DISTRICT SURVEYOR, and ASSISTANT SURVEYOR shall within 14 days after the appointment of the new surveyor, make up his accounts for the year pre-ceding, in writing, and shall sign and balance them, and shall within one calendar month sign and lay them before the justices at a special session, and shall, within 14 days after leaving his office, deliver his accounts, verified before justices at special sessions; but if the legal subjects are all expressed and kept together, the extent of the law can never be difficult to express, and if right words be used, can never be mistaken. If the copula of each enacting verb are joined immediately to their enacting verbs, and not thrown in a heap together to be afterwards discriminated and distributed to their proper subjects and actions, referendo singula singulis, each legal action will, as a consequence, stand out singly and simply, and the whole law will be as easy to compose, as it will be, when composed, easy of comprehension and terse in style. The paramount legislative importance of these two Distinctive members of legal sentence, the subject and the action, PrinlnKfr the renders it desirable that they should not only be distin-and legal guished by the construction of the sentence, but that they act'onshould be instantly discovered by the eye, and each at once distinguished from the other. In the following Appendices this is attempted; the beginning of the legal subject is distinguished by printing the...

Author : Alan Durant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131543623X

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Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law: describes the different registers and genres that make up spoken and written legal language and how they develop over time; analyses real-life examples drawn from court cases from different parts of the world, illustrating the varieties of English used in the courtroom by speakers occupying different roles; addresses the challenges presented to our notions of law and regulation by online communication; discusses the complex role of translation in bilingual and multilingual jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and Canada; and provides readings from key scholars in the discipline, including Lawrence Solan, Peter Goodrich, Marianne Constable, David Mellinkoff, and Chris Heffer. With a wide range of activities throughout, this accessible textbook is essential reading for anyone studying language and law or forensic linguistics. Sections A, B, and C of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315436258

Author : John Peter Gibbons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317894537

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Explains and describes the ways that language use in the legal system can create inequality and disadvantage. It examines the three main areas where the two intersect: the central issue of the language of the law; the disadvantage which language can impose before the law, and forensic linguistics - the use of linguistic evidence in legal processes. Each section of the book is preceded by an introduction by the editor which sets the paper within a conceptual framework. Lawyer's opinions are not neglected even though the collection is written mainly by linguists. The section concludes with a lawyer's response, in which a prominent lawyer with a particular interest in the content of the section responds to the papers.

Author : Anne Wagner
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783039111695

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This interdisciplinary collection with contributions in English and French explores how the various disciplines of law and linguistics appreciate and work towards improving the nature of clarity and obscurity in legal language. For the first time, it brings together legal academics and practitioners, jurilinguists and linguists from the common law and civil law with the specific aim to understand the complex nature, practice and tools of clarity and obscurity in legal drafting. Topics addressed include how the Clarity framework has been put into practice through the use of plainer language, better comprehensibility, readability and access to legal or administrative texts. In an attempt to reflect the more recent development of the Clarity-Obscurity debate, the editors have also focused on the use of specific instruments to respond to the problems raised by obscurity to improve clarity. Cette collection interdisciplinaire offrant des contributions en anglais et en français, explore comment les diverses disciplines du droit et de la linguistique appréhendent et visent à perfectionner la nature de la clarté et de l'opacité du discours juridique. Cet ouvrage rassemblant pour la première fois, des universitaires et professionnels du droit, des jurilinguistes et linguistes de la common law and et du droit civil, propose de découvrir la nature complexe, les pratiques et outils de la clarté et de l'opacité utilisés en rédaction juridique. Les questions abordées examinent la mise en pratique de la clarté juridique au travers de l'utilisation de la langue courante, une meilleure lisibilité, compréhensibilité et accès aux textes juridiques et administratifs. Dans le but de refléter l'actualité du débat Clarté-Opacité du discours juridique, les éditrices se sont également concentrées sur l'utilisation des outils et méthodes les plus récents et utilisés pour résoudre les difficultés soulevées par l'opacité des langues du droit et ainsi améliorer la transparence du discours juridique.

Author : John M. Conley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 022648453X

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Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or “multimodal,” communication in legal settings and law, language, and race.

Author : Paul Rylance
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199589895

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A comprehensive guide to writing and drafting from the first stage of preparation to the final edit. Features checklists, worked examples and chapters on using email, and designed to accompany readers from vocational study through to their qualification as solicitors as well as throughout the early years of practice.

Author : Gaby Schneidereit
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3638654494

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Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine" (Anglistisches Institut), course: Domain Specific English Language - Language and Law, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The English language has taken over the key role in international trade, legislation and policy-making. It has achieved "the enhanced status ...] as the dominant world language which] has led to an increased demand for the training of competent specialists able to mediate" (Alcaraz Varo/Hughes, 2002: 1). This goes along with a "phenomenal increase in the teaching of ...] 'English for special (or specific) purposes' " (ibid.: 2). What is the reason for this development? This piece of work might give an answer; it dedicates itself to domain specific English language: language and law. It concentrates on the characteristics of the structure of legal English in particular. An overview of the central structural features is given, without claiming completeness. Legal professionals aim at a precise explanation of facts which should leave no doubts. This aim forces them to use a certain kind of language pattern, such as including a high amount of definitions in legal texts, along with numerous complex and ancient phrases deriving from Law French and plentiful enumerations which can all together form a single sentence covering several lines. Dependent on which party they represent, lawyers make frequent use of features that reduce the agent in his identity while emphasizing the action - a matter of strategy which has the impeding of comprehension as a consequence. Therefore, the field of law becomes completely unapproachable for laymen, who are scarcely able to follow legal discourse. Even well-educated native speakers often find it hard to understand the language used in court. However, the access to one's rights is important. To begin with, the reader will be provided with an