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Excursions Into The Nature Of Legal Language, Mary Jane Morrison
Excursions Into The Nature Of Legal Language, Mary Jane Morrison
Cleveland State Law Review
In this article, I explore some of the truths on each side of the issue of whether the language of the law is a technical language and whether lawyers speak in a technical language when they speak with each other about the law. In Part I of this article, I examine the due process limitations on the thesis that the law is in a technical language and I draw distinctions between speaking carefully and speaking technically. In Part II, I set out the technical language views of H.L.A. Hart and Charles Caton. By taking back-bearings on the views of Hart …