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Why legal language is not plain?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

By "legal language" I assume that you mean the typical written language found in licenses and similar law-related papers. By "plain" I assume that you mean ordinary spoken language.

Legal language has a purpose of specifying very precisely some terms or rules that people are to follow. Plain language simply cannot give the same amount of precision without using much more time on the specification of the issue.

A typical example in legal language is to introduce entities:

"In the following X refers to yada yada yada yada yada [long text describing the entity X goes here"

Then later in the legal text it is possible to use X instead of the long introduction.

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