Modern legal drafting: a guide to using clearer language
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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| Physical Description: | XXXI, 240 S. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Acknowledgements page
ix
Acknowledgements, second edition
xi
List of Panels and Tables
xii
Table of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation
xiii
Table of Cases
xvii
Introduction
1
Traditional legal language
1
Pressures for reform
2
What this book tries to do
4
1
What Influences the Legal Drafter
6
Introduction
6
Familiarity and habit
7
Conservatism
9
Fear of negligence claims
15
Means of production
17
Professional pressures
21
Straining to avoid ambiguity
22
The mixture of languages
23
Payment by length
31
Payment by time
36
The litigious environment
37
2
How Legal Documents are Interpreted
39
Overview
39
What judges have said about traditional legal drafting
40
vi
Contents
The principles of legal interpretation
47
The two golden rules of interpretation and drafting
61
Commercial or purposive interpretation
62
Importance of context
64
Modern restatement
66
Dangers in using precedent as an aid to interpretation
73
Interpreting plain language documents
73
3
The Move towards Modern English in Legal Drafting
76
Introduction
76
The United Kingdom
78
Australia
93
The United States
99
Canada
107
What judges have said about plain English
109
4
Some Benefits of Drafting in Plain English
112
The meaning of plain English
112
Increased efficiency and understanding
114
Fewer errors
118
Image of the legal profession
119
Marketing
121
Compliance with statutory requirements
121
Conclusion
126
5
What to Avoid when Drafting Modern Documents
127
Introduction
127
Wordiness and redundancy
128
Overuse of
shalľ
131
Obscure language
137
Unusual word order
138
Frequently litigated words and phrases
140
Foreign words and phrases
141
Long sense-bites
142
Legalese and jargon
144
Peculiar linguistic conventions
151
Nouns instead of verbs
153
Contents
vii
Overuse of the passive
153
Deeming
154
Definitions
155
Overuse of capitals
160
Provisos
163
Conclusion
166
6
How to Draft Modern Documents
167
Modern, standard English
167
Document structure
170
Layout and design
172
Lists
178
Short sense-bites
181
Punctuation
183
Definitions
187
Tables, plans and formulas
191
Notes and examples
198
Simplified outlines
199
Shall and the modern document
200
Handling generality and vagueness
203
Syntactic ambiguity
207
Pronouns
208
Inclusive language
209
Problems with and , or
211
Drafting in the present tense
215
Deeds
216
Amending documents formally
218
Standard forms
219
Conclusion
221
7
Using the Modern Style
222
Lease: how to bring it to an end if the property is damaged
222
Company memorandum of association: subsidiary
objects clause
224
Will: attestation clause
225
Will: distribution in unequal shares
227
viii Contents
New land obligations: buyer s restrictive covenant
229
Conclusion
231
Further Reading
233
Index
235
In the second edition of this highly regarded text, the authors show how and
why traditional legal language has developed the peculiar characteristics that
make legal documents inaccessible to the end users. Incorporating recent
research and international examples, the book provides a critical examina¬
tion of case law and the rules of interpretation. Detailed case studies illus¬
trate how obscure or outdated words, phrases and concepts can be rewritten,
reworked or removed altogether
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without compromising legal exactitude.
In emphasising the benefits of plain language drafting, the focus is on clarity
and accessibility. Particularly useful is the step-by-step guide to drafting in
the modern style, using practical examples from four types of common legal
documents: leases, company constitutions, wills and conveyances.
Readers will gain an appreciation of the historical influences on drafting
practice and the use of legal terminology. They will learn about the current
moves to reform legal language; and they will receive clear instruction on
how to
malee
their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful to
clients and colleagues.
Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language will benefit
lawyers, law students, legislative drafters, and all who work in law-related
fields.
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