Legal Language

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.

• | Author: Peter M. Tiersma
• | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2000
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0226803031
• | ISBN-13: 9780226803036