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Legal fictions and the limits of legal language

International Journal of Law in Context, 2013
AbstractSince Lon Fuller published his 1930 trilogy of essays on the topic, students of the legal fiction have focused on identifying additional examples of fictions or challenging Fuller's classic taxonomy. But Fuller did more in these essays than propose a definition and a classification system; he also argued that legal fictions are examples of a ...
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Language modeling for legal proof

2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, 2010
In common law jurisdictions, the notion of proof beyond a reasonable doubt is frequently related to notions such as the belief or certainty of a judge or a juror about reality. The notion of balance of probabilities is however related to likelihood or probability.
Le Cheng, Winnie Cheng
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LegalHTML: A Representation Language for Legal Acts

2023
The Publications Office (OP) of European Union (EU) expressed the need to simplify the Official Journal production workflow, which required different formats and, consequently, document instances at different stages of the process. We met this need by developing LegalHTML, which unifies the formal, structural and semantic representation of legal acts ...
Armando Stellato, Manuel Fiorelli
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The Concept of Legal Language: Law is Language

Argumentation 2021, 2021
This paper deals with the metaphor ‘law is language’ coined by James Boyd White and how it can be useful to understand the concept of legal language, connections between law and language and how the term language is used in the legal realm. In the beginning, the article aims to give an overview of possible approaches to legal language and continues ...
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The Path of the Legal Language in the Hungarian Language

Acta Universitatis Christianae Partiensis. Studia culturale, 2023
This paper presents the emergence of the concept of law and the word law (jog) itself in the Hungarian language, the development of its meaning; the birth and the Hungarianization of the Hungarian legal language (the continuous efforts of language renewal); the critical approach of linguists to legal language; the new linguistic approaches to legal ...
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Legal Cultures — Legal Languages

2009
Language is important. In 1944, allied intelligence in Italy intercepted a German message to an abbey, asking whether the abbot was still there. The answer was in the affirmative. The service, however, falsely took the German word Abt for abbot to be the standard abbreviation for Abteilung (division).
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Legal Language and Legal Knowledge Management Applications

2010
This work is an investigation into the peculiarities of legal language with respect to ordinary language. Based on the idea that a shallow parsing approach can help to provide enough detailed linguistic information, this work presents the results obtained by shallow parsing (i.e.
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Implicatures within Legal Language

2019
This book proposes a novel, descriptive theory that unveils the linguistic mechanisms lurking behind judicial decisions. It offers a comprehensive account of the ongoing debate, as well as a novel solution to the problem of understanding legal pragmatics. Linguistic pragmatics is based on a theory created by Paul Grice, who observed that people usually
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Idiosyncrasies of Legal Language

2023
Abstract This chapter sums up the characteristics of legal language, specific grammatical and terminological features that give the language of the law in general and the language of canon law in particular its specific sound. These features often include the use of a challenging syntax, an excessive use of the passive voice, and an ...
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The Value of the Legal Language

History of state and law
In any sphere of life in modern society, communication plays an important role. The legal sphere is no exception, which is characterized by the presence of its own language with its inherent features due to the specific nature of this phenomenon. However, the value of legal language lies not only in the possibility of exchanging legal information ...
Vladislav Yu. Turanin, Viktoria V. Nesterenko   +1 more
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