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I. The Effect of Archaic Phrasing on Modern Legal Writing

Over the past few lessons, we’ve looked at how the long-dead languages of Norman French, Old English, and Latin have impacted modern American legal writing. But history’s influence doesn’t stop here. The antiquated cases and other texts that...