RE: An attempt to be constructive

Russ Allbery writes:
>The entire point and *purpose* of a lawyer specializing in contract law is
>to write clearly.  They're not writing clearly for the average reader,
>necessarily; that requires a whole different type of phrasing.  They're
>writing clearly for the interpretation of the contract by a judge, and in
>so doing they're drawing on *centuries* of definitions.

I once said to an ex-lawyer, now software friend at work that law seemed to
be an effort to make English as unambiguous as computer code.  He laughed,
but granted that the idea had some merit...
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Mark Leighton Fisher            [email protected]
Thomson Consumer Electronics    Indianapolis IN
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