On the Subterfuge of the Language of Bankers, Judges and Lawyers: - TopicsExpress



          

On the Subterfuge of the Language of Bankers, Judges and Lawyers: The case is this. A large portion of the body of the law was, by the bigotry or artifice of lawyers, locked up in an illegible character, and in a foreign tongue. The statute (Blackstone) mentions obliged them to give up their hieroglyphics, and to restore the native language to its rights. This was doing much; but it was not doing everything. Fiction, tautology, technicality, circuity, irregularity, inconsistency remain. But above all, the pestilential breath of Fiction poisons the sense of every instrument it comes near.~ Jeremy Bentham, A Comment on the Commentaries (Blackstone)
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 10:15:33 +0000

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