Any legal system necessarily needs a language to function. This necessity of language is attested to by what law-makers, judges, lawyers, and all legal language users do, and, unsurprisingly, by the whole enterprise of (legal) scholarship. Thus, chronologically, language is used in law from its birth—the making of the law—through its adolescence—the legal discussion and application of the law—to its death—the overruling and expiration of the law.

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Languages of the Law: Vocabularies and Uses. Introduction

  • Maciej Dybowski,
  • Verena Klappstein

摘要

Any legal system necessarily needs a language to function. This necessity of language is attested to by what law-makers, judges, lawyers, and all legal language users do, and, unsurprisingly, by the whole enterprise of (legal) scholarship. Thus, chronologically, language is used in law from its birth—the making of the law—through its adolescence—the legal discussion and application of the law—to its death—the overruling and expiration of the law.