Sentences with phrase «example of legalese»

I think that model release is a terrible example of legalese, full of needless repetition and archaic language.

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We included examples of «legalese» from real life insurance policies, but this doesn't mean that this is how the rider will be defined on your policy.

So, for example, even if a superior repeatedly points out to the person that he should ditch the here - and - there words and other forms of legalese (as The Lawyerist's Andy Mergendahl has advised here), or that nominalizations and buried verbs should be reworked into active voice, or that Enclosed please find (PDF) is silly and should be stricken from all correspondence, a month or two later the superior will see these legal - writing foibles in a letter, memorandum, or, worse, a brief filed with a court.

Now, publisher Henry Holt and Co. is about to release his book, The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese, in which, according to Publishers Weekly, he «offers a cornucopia of hilarious, offbeat and downright bizarre examples of simple concepts contorted into words that defy understanding.»

The Canadian Income Tax Act, for example, is over 2600 pages of complex small print legalese.

For example, Kenneth Chestek found that judges, law clerks, and practicing lawyers rated sample briefs with strong narrative components as more persuasive than sample briefs without strong narrative components.13 Sean Flammer found that judges rated sample briefs as more persuasive when they were written in plain language rather than in legalese.14 Similarly, Robert Benson and Joan Kessler found that appellate judges and their law clerks preferred briefs written in plain language rather than in legalese.15 Finally, Joseph Kimble and Steve Harrington found that judges and attorneys preferred plain language over legalese.16 These studies, however, measure only the judges» and lawyers» stated preferences for particular styles of writing.