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Legalese is about specificity. How does being less precise assist understanding with specificity? I cannot, in a contract, just refer to a street address. For
by imchillyb 2y ago
Legalese is about specificity.
How does being less precise assist understanding with specificity?
I cannot, in a contract, just refer to a street address. For reasons of specificity, I must state where the survey marker corner is located -exactly- and then detail how many feet from that in a direction, etc. These long descriptions ensure that there are no misunderstandings later.
The verbiage of these contracts have grown more specific through use. People, or companies, wiggle out of things and new contract language is invented to prevent such wiggle-room in the future.
How would one go about accomplishing a 'dumbing down' of a contract, without losing the anti-wiggle specificity?
Also, I really like that word. Say it with me, please: 'specificity.' Neat.
- indymike 2y ago> How would one go about accomplishing a 'dumbing down' of a contract Perhaps go with the UCC default and not try to have the buyer opt out of every specific consumer right. The longer the contract, the more one party is probably being screwed with great specificity.