Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions

Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
Author: District Judges Association, Sixth Circuit. Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2008
Genre: Criminal procedure
ISBN:

Legal Language

Legal Language
Author: Peter M. Tiersma
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780226803036

This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.