The law assumes that everyone knows the law, yet the obscurity of lawyer's language puts it out of the reach of those who are presumed to know it. The aim of th... » 

The law assumes that everyone knows the law, yet the obscurity of lawyer's language puts it out of the reach of those who are presumed to know it. The aim of this book is to establish, on the contrary, that the development and maintenance of law's special language can be justified. «