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Lawyers are mad folk in general, but their madness crescendos, according to Professor Mellinkoff, in their “consuming passion for precedent .’ Mesmerized by the “ritual phrase’ stare decisis , they delve into that shelf-devouring monster of confusion known as Words and Phrases and come forth with “language that the profession accepts as precedent,’ thus investing such terms as accident and proximate cause with a false precision.
If legal language were to be stripped of ordinary English, repetition, tradition, precedent, and requirement, there would still remain, Professor Mellinkoff begrudgingly concedes, “a nubbin of precision’ from its terms of art . These “technical terms with specific meanings’ are a “mere sprinkling,’ as seldom found as “nuggets in a salted gold field.
Would Mellinkoff banish such useful words as heretofore, theretofore, hereto, and therefor ? Would we abandon the subjunctive mood, adverbs, Latin idioms, bon mots, and the like?
David Mellinkoff's criticism of lawyer language is lamentable.
As for the impact on the profession, one must, with a sigh, agree with Professor Mellinkoff that “gratuitous literary advice ...