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Legalese

Legalese is the term given to the special dialect of any given language (usually English) in a legal document[?]. Usually, Legalese has very long sentences that are incomprehensible to many a layman[?].

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A table of legalese words and how they should be interpreted (http://www1.law.ucla.edu/~volokh/legalese.htm)

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