Legal English

Legal English ( Legal English ) is a style of English, which is used by lawyers and attorneys. In particular, it is used in legal writings ( eg in a contract, legal correspondence or arbitration ). Today's English law but has its basis in everyday English ( Standard English ) includes diverse unusual in normal usage, legal terms.

Legal specifics

The right English varies, depending on which law the legal font is used. Thus, the terms eg for contracts which have been placed under American jurisdiction, different from those contracts which have been placed under Swiss jurisdiction in part. American Legal English differs from other legal English in other features. So the American legal English has a differing from the normal English punctuation.

Key Features

The main differences are:

• Technical terms whose meaning is not commonly known to the layman (eg apostille, to endorse, conditional intent ).
• Unusual punctuation (only in the Anglo - American legal English )
• Frequent use of terms, which derived from French and Latin.
• Replicates and triplicates. In English law there is a historically conditioned tendency, two or three words together to chain eg null and void void. Such constructs must be treated with caution, especially since some duplications and triplicates exactly the same mean like every single word ( eg null and void) and not quite certain (eg, dispute, controversy or claimsoft ).
• Sometimes strange -sounding sentence structure.