Sentences with phrase «hoary legal»

The trial judge can rationalize accepting the plea by relying upon a hoary legal maxim.
Third, they probably did not learn how to write elegantly in law school because the writing professor was necessarily preoccupied with purging comma splices, the passive voice, and hoary legal jargon from a small mountain of papers.

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Unfortunately, it seems that no one inside the profession, and certainly not the students to whom we have neglectfully devolved all responsibility in the matter, has the will or the experience to question the rationale for the hoary rules of legal citation.
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