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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 04:44 AM EDT |
Laws must be written in a language people understand.
Otherwise
they are
just a tool for manipulation
Yes, the law is a tool, for
manipulation, of situations deemed unjust by a
party, into a situation deemed
consistent with the aspirations of the state
corporation
issuing and backing those laws.
As a tool, it sometimes has
outcomes other than that intended by it's user. Bad
craftsmen and all
that.
[There, fixed it for you] [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Balance on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 06:15 PM EDT |
More specifically, I would describe legalese as a programming--or, at least,
scripting--language. Legal code is written to be run on the "hardware"
of the court system, which takes data input in the form of cases.
Like most high-level programming languages, it has many keywords that resemble
related words in English, but have much more specific meanings. Other keywords
are obviously not English, and are entirely cryptic to anyone not experienced
with the language.
Of course, the hardware it runs on ranges from the equivalent of a moderately
old laptop to an abacus, and CourtOS has more versions than Windows (and nearly
as many weird incompatibilities). The shared libraries of legalese are full of
oddly specific workarounds and tweaks to make it as cross-platform as possible.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Nicely Put! - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 08:39 PM EDT
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