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  2. Legal English - Wikipedia

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    Legal English, also known as legalese, [1] is a register of English used in legal writing. It differs from day-to-day spoken English in a variety of ways including the use of specialized vocabulary, syntactic constructions, and set phrases such as legal doublets .

  3. Legal writing - Wikipedia

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    B.M.Gandhi's Legal Language, Legal Writing & General English ISBN 978-9351451228. New ELS: English for Law Students written by Maria Fraddosio (Naples, Edizioni Giuridiche Simone, 2008) is a course book for Italian University Students. The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, created by Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers.

  4. Plain meaning rule - Wikipedia

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    Larry Solum, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, expands on this premise: Some laws are meant for all citizens (e.g., criminal statutes) and some are meant only for specialists (e.g., some sections of the tax code). A text that means one thing in a legal context, might mean something else if it were in a technical manual or a novel.

  5. Lists of landmark court decisions - Wikipedia

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    Establishing a "test" (that is, a measurable standard that can be applied by courts in future decisions), such as the Oakes test (in Canadian law) or the Bolam test (in English law). Sometimes, with regard to a particular provision of a written constitution, only one court decision has been made.

  6. Legal citation - Wikipedia

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    Legal citation is the practice of crediting and referring to authoritative documents and sources. The most common sources of authority cited are court decisions (cases), statutes, regulations, government documents, treaties, and scholarly writing.

  7. Why do Americans have a constitutional right to assistance of ...

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    The State also has a continuing legal and ethical obligation to turn over to me all exculpatory evidence (i.e. evidence which proves my client is not guilty) that never goes away.

  8. Elder Law Is More Important Than Ever. Why? Baby Boomers. - AOL

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    Elder law refers to legal issues that concern older adults, generally defined as people above the age of 65. It is often understood as an extension of traditional trust and estate law, but ...

  9. Writ - Wikipedia

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    In this history of English common law, original writs began a legal proceeding, while a judicial writ was issued during a legal proceeding. [ 9 ] The writ was a unique development of the Anglo-Saxon monarchy and consisted of a brief administrative order, authenticated (innovatively) by a seal . [ 10 ]