THE RADIANT JUSTICE CHAMBERS, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY WEEKLY LEGAL NUGGETS LEGALESE Legalese is a technical form of writing often used by lawyers and members of the legal community to discuss legal definitions, terms, laws, and contracts. It is the formal and technical language of legal documents. One example of legalese is the terms and conditions of a contract. Lawyers use words in their ordinary meaning just like every other member of the public on the one hand, and on the other hand, lawyers use words in a special/technical sense and thus give such a word a legal or uncommon meaning, such as "abate", which in law means to suppress a nuisance or to suspend a claim, or action, and a word like "bench" which in law means Judges or Magistrates collectively, etc. Lawyers often use a lot of archaic or old words because much of the common law on which English law is based was developed in the 15th century when the commonly used words were Roman and Latin. Legalese...
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