The Consumer Protection Act requires that all contracts with consumers be written in plain language, but this should apply to all legal documents. The first problem is that attorneys spent years at university learning all sorts of Latin expressions, known as “legal Latin”. having learned it, they naturally want to use it and, hopefully, impress their clients with their legal nouse. Wikipedia lists about 400 of them under List of Latin legal terms. To give you a few common examples – ante = before bona fide = in good faith contra = against de facto = true in…
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