legalese in English

noun
1
the formal and technical language of legal documents that is often hard to understand.
Unfortunately, the disclosures are hard to read due to legalese and boilerplate language.

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1. While these changes seem like legalese Blather, they actually represent a significant change in policy.

2. 8 Plain-language advocates and practitioners will nibble at the iron curtain of the tenacious legalese and other forms of gobbledygook .

3. The phrases “further Affiant sayeth not” or “further Affiant sayeth not” are legalese typically used at the end of affidavits, a sworn document

4. 7 Take challenging composition courses (not just creative writing courses, but classes in journalism, technical writing, etc.) so you can "speak" journalese, UNese, legalese, etc.

5. AllegroTrans (United Kingdom: Local time: 12:15: English translation: Attested/witnessed/certified by: Explanation: I think this is better than "the same", which is outdated legalese

6. " so ordered, Adjudged and decreed" is the legalese formula that precedes the orders and determinations of the court in the written document with the word "Order" or "Judgment" in its title.

7. Legalese is an English term first used in 1914 for legal writing that is difficult for lay people to read and understand, the implication being that said Abstruseness is deliberate for excluding the legally untrained (Noordin, Samad 2011: 1)

8. Amerce (v.) "punishment by arbitrary or discretionary fine," 1215, earlier amercy, Anglo-French amercier "to fine," from merci "mercy, grace" (see mercy).The legal phrase estre a merci "to be at the mercy of" (a tribunal, etc.) was corrupted to estre amercié in an example of how an adverbial phrase in legalese can become a verb (compare abandon).