Overview
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