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Hardcover:
9780199572120 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 4, 2012, cover price $170.00
Paperback:
9780198744962 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 28, 2016), cover price $50.00
Product Description: Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society—perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial precedents and legislation...read more
Hardcover:
9780226803067 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 2010, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society—perhaps none more so than the written word.
Hardcover:
9780226767925 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 2005, cover price $70.00
Paperback:
9780226767932 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 2005, cover price $29.00
Statutes, judicial opinions, contracts, deeds, and wills profoundly affect our daily lives, but their language tends to be often nearly impossible to understand. In this lively history of legal language, Peter Tiersma slices through the thicket of legalese, explaining where it comes from, why lawyers continue to cling to it, and why it's doesn't have to be an inevitable feature of our legal system."Legal Language will resonate with lawyers . . . and any non-lawyer who has waded through legal documents, or has tuned in to the latest trial on Court TV."--Carmie D. Boccuzzi, Jr., Boston Book Review"[A] masterful, highly readable, and enjoyable book. . . . Legal Language is truly a fun book to read."--David Schultz, Law and Politics Book Review (view table of contents)
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9780226803029 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Statutes, judicial opinions, contracts, deeds, and wills profoundly affect our daily lives, but their language tends to be often nearly impossible to understand.
Paperback:
9780226803036 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 2000, cover price $29.00
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