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  2. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Both shall and will may be contracted to -'ll, most commonly in affirmative statements where they follow a subject pronoun. Their negations, shall not and will not, also have contracted forms: shan't and won't (although shan't is rarely used in North America, and is becoming rarer elsewhere too). See English auxiliaries and contractions.

  3. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.

  4. Legal writing - Wikipedia

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    Books on legal writing at a law library. Legal writing involves the analysis of fact patterns and presentation of arguments in documents such as legal memoranda and briefs. [1] One form of legal writing involves drafting a balanced analysis of a legal problem or issue. Another form of legal writing is persuasive, and advocates in favor of a ...

  5. Lists of legal terms - Wikipedia

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    The following pages contain lists of legal terms: List of Latin legal terms; List of legal abbreviations; List of legal abbreviations (canon law) on Wiktionary: Appendix: English legal terms; Appendix: Glossary of legal terms

  6. Plain language - Wikipedia

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    That same decade, the consumer-rights movement won legislation that required plain language in contracts, insurance policies, and government regulations. American law schools began requiring students to take legal writing classes that encouraged them to use plain English as much as possible and to avoid legal jargon, except when absolutely ...

  7. Vesting Clauses - Wikipedia

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    The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:[...] Judicial Vesting Clause: Article III, Section 1

  8. Deem (law) - Wikipedia

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    Deem in law means to consider, judge, or condemn. It is also used to treat something as if it were something else or has qualities that it does not have. [1]: 477 "Deem" has been traditionally considered to be useful when it is necessary to establish a legal fiction either positively by "deeming" something to be what it is not, or negatively by "deeming" something not to be what it is.

  9. Plain Writing Act of 2010 - Wikipedia

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    Signed into law on October 13, 2010, by President Obama, the Plain Writing Act of 2010 (H.R. 946; Pub. L. 111–274 (text)) is a United States federal law that requires that federal executive agencies: Use plain writing in every covered document that the agency issues or substantially revises [2] Train employees in "plain writing" practices