Sentences with phrase «legalese which»

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.

You know as well as I do that the phrase «reasonable suspicion» is a carte blanche term of legalese which allows the police to prevent photography - like the film clip we're discussing - to be shown in public or even made in the first place..

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Trump's tweets — which were written in dense legalese — mean the president is now contradicting himself.

I contend generally lawyers who have been trained in weaseling out reading law with an eye toward what it does and doesn't mean, which is what make «legalese» happen.

An accountant or attorney who specializes in tax law — like the professionals at Optima Tax Relief, can translate the legalese generated by Congress and the IRS into plain English, and help ensure that you are able to take full advantage of all the tax breaks to which you are entitled.

Once the legalese and diplomatic jargon was translated, the new normal — which every business and politician needs to accept — was declared unequivocally that business - as - usual can not and will not go on.

After reading 1,000 cases as a first year law student — most of which were written in the stuffiest, densest legalese imaginable — my writing started to morph into what I was seeing everyday: passive voice, unnecessary Latin phrases, way - too - long sentences, etc..

One helpful articulation of the American doctrine can be seen in California Standard Civil Jury Instruction No. 2334, which can be paraphrased from the American legalese as follows, for ease of reading:

We enter the domain of computational law, which is something very close to what we do at Legalese, and we start by designing a domain - specific language for law.

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.»

This confusion is noted in the Lawyerist blog which proposes that lawyers should help root out this antiquated, confusing, oft - litigated bit of legalese by eliminating it at every chance you get.

Via Boing Boing, a link to Law is Code, which discusses a demonstration that legalese has more in common with software than literature.

The legalese term for this is «stare decisis ``, which translates to «let the decision stand».

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.

Via Boing Boing, a link to Law is Code, which discusses a demonstration that legalese has more in common with software than literature... [more]

Blogger Mister Thorne at Set in Style points us to to an article in the Georgetown (Kentucky) News - Graphic, Pleaseth Updateth Thy Language, in which the newspaper's intrepid copy editor lives to tell about multiple encounters with archaic legalese in the deed books of the local county courthouse.

Whether or not one treats the majority opinion's public forum analysis of social networks as «dicta» (which is legalese for «stuff in an opinion I don't like so I don't consider binding»), all 8 Supreme Court justices agreed that subscribers have a First Amendment right to access information and speak online, and that the government can not prohibit a person from accessing content that has nothing to do with preventing repeat offenses — even when the repeat offense is child molestation, and the evidence arguably supported that child molesters were particularly prone to repetition.

Common «legalese» will be made comprehensible and experts will learn the procedural and substantive laws which impact them and govern legal disputes including: civil procedure, discovery, trial practice, causes of action, affirmative defenses, evidence, contracts, negligence, Daubert / Frye and the legal rules and concepts most relevant to expert witnessing.

Which means that insurance documents are written in that annoying «legalese» that is necessary to satisfy court requirements but rather difficult for ordinary people to understand.

In legalese, these are «pendente lite» orders, which means «pending a final decree.»

They also research any issues which could prevent the buyer from «quiet enjoyment» of the property (legalese for living in peace on the property without interruption by claimants).