Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Legal Studies by Archie Zariski

Author:Archie Zariski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Athabasca University
Published: 2014-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEGAL LANGUAGE

Criticism of the way lawyers and judges speak and write is not new. In the nineteenth century, the English legal reformer Jeremy Bentham called it “law jargon,” “lawyers’ cant,” and “flash language.”16 Great improvements have been made since then. A document commonly used by courts in Alberta formerly read as follows:

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, CANADA AND HER OTHER REALMS AND TERRITORIES, QUEEN, HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.

TO. …

NOW KNOW YE that We, in confidence of your prudence and fidelity, have appointed and do by this Commission appoint you, and direct, authorize and give you power within thirty days after the receipt of this Commission, or such longer time as may reasonably be required to take evidence in the above cause, to examine before you viva voce as herein mentioned the aforesaid witnesses. … 17

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