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The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving legal communication, building the discipline of legal writing, and improving the status of legal writing faculty across the United States. The institute currently has almost 3,000 members; while the bulk of the members are law professors, some of the members ...
I am fairly sure that indices is the correct plural form of index. --69.138.61.168 01:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC) Both are correct. I tend to use "indexes" when conversing with an unsophisticated audience which may be unfamiliar with the plural "indices", unless I can define it in the sentence, such as "I use either index A or index B, as both ...
The book "Legal Writing" calls the table of authorities "complicated" and says "it takes more time than you might imagine". [ 13 ] To simplify the process further, other applications and plug-ins for word processors provide similar functionality as well as additional features such as automatically finding and marking citations in the document.
The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. [1] It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. [2] [3] In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German ...
A plural base title can also redirect to an article (Bookends redirects to Bookend; Faces redirects to Face). If separate primary topics are determined, add a hatnote from the plural page to the singular form (or vice versa). Sometimes, what appears to be a plural form may also be a separate word, which can influence the primary topic decision.
See also "ad." above. "vs." is used in most scholarly writing in other fields, but "v." alone in legal writing. VC or V-C – Postnominals of the Vice-Chancellor of the High Court (England and Wales) VOP - Violation of probation
The plural of individual letters is usually written with -'s: [22] there are two h's in this sentence; mind your p's and q's; dot the i's and cross the t's. Some people extend this use of the apostrophe to other cases, such as plurals of numbers written in figures (e.g. "1990's"), words used as terms (e.g. "his writing uses a lot of but's").
B.C.L. – Babylonian law – Bachelor of Civil Law – Bachelor of Laws – Bachelor of Legal Letters – Back-to-back life sentences – Bad debt – Bad faith – Bail – Bail bond – Bail bondsman – Bail schedule – Bailee – Bailiff – Bailment – Bailor – Bait and switch – Balance due – Balance sheet – Ban – Bank – Bankrupt – Bankruptcy – Bankruptcy court ...