legalese


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a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law

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Why not post this information to FaceApp's website, beyond the legalese? "We are planning to make some improvements," Goncharov said.
An agreement is simply an extension of a farm's daily operations and standards and it must be written in plain English that farmers can understand.Minimise legalese and ensure open communication between the farmer and processor.
It contains side-by-side comparisons of previously existing rules and suggested style edits along with the rationale for adopting plain language over legalese: 'shall' can signal any of 'must,' 'may,' 'is,' or something else, and organizing ideas into numbered or bulleted lists makes the ideas easier to understand, to name two.
"Because legalese is so intimidating, people lose sight of that essence.
But the fact that much of Cobell's struggle was played out in dry conference rooms with lots of people in suits sitting around tables speaking legalese at times limits the filmmaker's ability to evoke suspense.
Summary: Protecting intellectual property (IP) rights used to mean sending a stream of intimidating letters full of legalese on law firm stationery.
Yet, by the same token, the legalese that these days must precede any printed record of the former Yippie, drug dealer, JDO activist, and pioneering garbologist's nonstop provocations should not be taken as evidence that Weberman is somehow innately any less truthful than the celebrities, political figures, and power structures that he delighted in tweaking, torturing, and maligning for the past half-century.
To Microsoft's credit, it's in plain English rather than legalese. On the other hand, it's about 17,000 words, so it will take time to find out if there's anything else that's truly awful inside.
He said some of the "legalese" handouts from the EPA might have confused some people.
Yet if you think you have a genuine case, regardless of the legalese they use, keep going.
By not employing an agent, Hamilton saved himself a fortune, although he had the good sense to retain his long-time lawyer, Sue Thackery, to guide him through the more obscure sections of the contract's legalese.
What's the betting that this secretive decision is "No Inquiry" dressed up in legalese?
Even in the 21st Century, the age of wisdom, we are defeated by insurmountable legalese. There could be a clause about succumbing to a zombie apocalypse, and I just agreed to it.
* Disclose all fees proactively, ensuring that every new product offering includes an explanation of charges in plain language, rather than legalese, buried somewhere deep on the website.
Beckenbauer has since had a change of heart and offered to provide responses to the questions which he had initially rejected because they were written in "legalese English." Fifa Secretary General Jerome Valcke told reporters that Beckenbauer could now attend the tournament he graced as a player with West Germany.