The Language of the Law
The Language of the Law This is that rare book which both informs and entertains. Lawyers and laymen alike can read it with profit and amusement. It is scholarly and sprightly - an unusual…
Specifikacia The Language of the Law
The Language of the Law
This is that rare book which both informs and entertains. Lawyers and laymen alike can read it with profit and amusement. It is scholarly and sprightly - an unusual combination for any book, let alone one treating of the law.
The Honorable Arthur J. I hope many do, for it deserves a wide audience. Goldberg (1908-1990), United States Supreme Court, The New York Herald Tribune A superb piece of writing, lucid, witty, meticulous in scholarship and unfailingly interesting. Robert R.
Kirsch, Los Angeles Times We now have a full-scale study of our legal language that is written with an extraordinary awareness for vacuous words and phrases and an astounding amount of research into their history and usage.... This book has a practical value to every lawyer who drafts a document, a pleading, or even a letter. It is a great plea to bring the law up to date by awakening us to the empty verbalisms