Thus I don't think you will be able
>to write all laws and contracts in simple English; the effort of protecting
>against other lawyers will prevent it if nothing else. Though I'm sure that
>it can be done a lot of the time.
A lot of law is technical and there are centuries of technical vocabulary
that have built up. You used the law French term
"lien," for example, or "mortgage," etc. Some of this is necesasry, some of
it is useful. But "legalese," all that "party of the first part" stuff thea
the Marx brother used to have such glorious fun with ("No, Virginia, there
isn't any sanity clause."), is mostly dispensible. It will never look like
Hemingway. Unless you are a great prose writer it never look like Holmes.
But it's not toomuch to ask that it look like good good clear legal writing.
I hope.
jks
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