Legal Language
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| Originally published | February 1999 |
| Authors | Peter Meijes Tiersma |
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| ID | 2165522 |
About Legal Language
Peter Tiersma's history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. He shows to what extent legalese is a product of its past, when Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, Latin-speaking missionaries, Scandinavian raiders, and Norman invaders all left their marks on the language that lawyers use today. . . .
