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Modern legal drafting : a guide to using clearer language / Peter Butt, Richard Castle

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رقم التسجيلة 11338
نوع المادة book
ردمك 0521802172 (hardback
رقم الطلب 808.0663 mod
المؤلف Butt, Peter
العنوان Modern legal drafting : a guide to using clearer language / Peter Butt, Richard Castle
بيانات النشر Newyork: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
الوصف المادي xxvi, 181 p : 24 cm ; ill
ملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-176) and index

المحتويات / النص

 Modern Legal Drafting A Guide to Using Clearer Language. ... Modern legal drafting [electronic resource] : a guide to using clearer language / ... This book examines legal language and provides guidelines for drafting in modern English. Access ... to draft modern documents. Part. 2 : Particular issues for legal drafters -- How to draft modern 

  • Introduction
  • 1. What influences the legal drafter?
  • 2. How legal documents are interpreted
  • 3. The move towards modern English in legal drafting
  • 4. Some benefits of drafting in plain English
  • 5. What to avoid when drafting modern documents
  • 6. How to draft modern documents
  • 7. Using the modern style.

المستخلص

Looks at how and why traditional legal language has developed the peculiar characteristics making it inaccessible to the end users. Practical elements show readers how to make their documents clearer and more useful to clients and colleagues by reworking obscure words and phrases.

المواضيع Legal composition
Bill drafting
Law - Language
الأسماء المرتبطة Castle, Richard