"Legalese" refers to the complex and formal language used in legal documents and texts that may be difficult for people to understand. It can be seen as a jargon or specialized terminology used by lawyers and legal professionals.
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As she waded through a stream
of legalese in search of permission from the rights holders (a corporation), she came to the following conclusion: «The rights holders weren't actually getting more money because of the copyright; what they were getting was the power to suppress art, to suppress communication.»
Nothing annoys me more than reading something written
in legalese for a client.
Real Estate Lawyer by Outlook Software was developed by real estate attorneys and written with a minimum of
legalese for the nonlawyer.
I just think that for a number of reasons, florid, complex writing strewn
with legalese does a poor job of communicating, whether the reader is a lawyer, judge, or layperson (like a client).
Your attorney should speak to you in terms you're comfortable with —
not legalese.
What if a computer could analyze your residential lease, NDA, or other legal document, translate it from
legalese into plain English, and advise you on whether you may want to sign it?
Well - written and authoritative yet unhampered
by legalese....
Translated
from legalese, that means that some things are so irresistible to kids that they can't help themselves.
Also of interest (and possibly the subject of future blog posts): Chapter Two, where she focuses on
avoiding legalese and communicating with clarity and Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight, where she offers tips regarding voice inflection and speed, strategies use of counsel to better communicate ideas, and the effective uses of gesture and body language to facilitate comprehension.
Section 301 basically states the same thing we discussed above, but with
more legalese.
But sneaked into the
dense legalese of the regulations is a duty to open up all the NHS to commercial competition.
I may not
speak legalese, but I'm sure there are legal ramifications for this «error.»
And if you look at the TL; DR of my legal background, that's what we
at Legalese call the Lawyer Version 1.0.
Courts and Kids contains too
much legalese, and the case studies could have benefited from more information in the text, as opposed to the footnotes.
Then they also get a whole host of tools accessible to them, like a divorce worksheet, and access to our webinars, and a glossary of
legalese made into plain English, that kind of thing.
But the important step to remember is to stop and really read through what you're agreeing to — even if sometimes it's contained in a lengthy
legalese agreement — before casually hitting the «continue» to log in using Facebook button.
Interviewer 1: Well just a lease document can be like 10 pages long, can't it, with - depending on the lease company I suppose - with lots of very small writing in
legalese which is pretty hard to understand.
That seems to be a pattern in the few cases in which Justice Watt has gone «noir» — a paragraph or two at the opening done in crime novel style, then on to
dry legalese for the rest of the judgment.
The first thing you'll need in crafting any employment contract is a good lawyer who can help ensure that you have covered all the important
legalese needed in such documents.
I suspect this is
just legalese to cover B&N's corporate butt in the case of a major computer disaster or something.
If you drafted a will, you'll have appointed someone to be your executor: the person who handles the process of resolving your financial matters, including the payoff of any debt (known in
legalese as probate).
And just because the detail is mostly
legalese mumbo - jumbo, no - one seems to get what's about to happen.
The law can get confusing, and this is not the time to guess at meanings or pretend to
understand legalese.
He is able to talk to clients in a plan English manner that does not revert to using
complicated legalese.
But many such descriptions are written in long - winded, jargony, off -
putting legalese.
Compelled to interact with the judicial system yet unable to afford counsel and unable to
interpret legalese, the accused is placed in an unfair fight.
Before your funds and assets are frozen in
legalese when payments and payroll can't be met?
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has called for an overhaul of privacy notices that leave consumers baffled by
unnecessary legalese.
For non-lawyers, Barron's also has the advantage of using slightly
less legalese in its definitions — not to the extreme of the Nolo's Plain English Law Dictionary, but enough to be appreciated by non-lawyers.
In case you don't know by now, many lawyers — maybe even you — enjoy writing cease and desist letters in a foreign language
called legalese.
During the legislators remarks Grant and Schoenberger, in their
finest legalese intonated that the proposal should sail through because the formal documents in front of the legislature were signed by the County Executive, Ed Day and the County Attorney, Thomas Humbach.
If I put on my programmer hat and I look at
legalese like this, I think, «Surely we can take these kinds of pseudocode out of Microsoft Word to a text editor, add some curly braces, pretty syntax highlighting, and perhaps this is what an agreement really wants to be and really can be when it grows up.
We'll take note of the page of fine
print legalese, but refrain from reading it because it's just too much to take in.
It's been copied verbatim from
Microsoft legalese, with direct references to the Xbox One and Xbox Live in it.
And while the video starts with a pretty clear explanation of how copyright works (thankfully with the help of a narrator, rather than the cartoon characters» typical gibberish), when the video gets to the issues that most people probably do have questions about — particularly fair use and mashups — the narration runs into high speed, brushing
over legalese like it's a joke.