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Handwriting Chirography Reading--Study and teaching Legislative acts Legislative enactments Acts, Legislative Enactments, Legislative Laws (Statutes) Linguostylistics Stylistics Language and languages--Syntax Syntax Sketch, Literary Literary sketch War claims Claims--Law and legislation International claims Private claimsCiter ce document
Richard Weisberg, « Rue d’Ulm : Comparative Judicial Stylistics », Clio@Themis
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What is the poethic method of reading law ? It claims that the form of a judicial opinion is indistinguishable from its substance. The structure, syntax, and word choice of the judge are not mere ornament ; they in fact comprise the decision. You cannot extract the judge’s manner of writing from the rule, or holding, of the decision, or if you do it is only at your peril. As Benjamin N Cardozo put it in his seminal 1925 essay called “Law and Literature”:Form is not something added to substance...
