Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
Quote Originally Posted by Dobry
We (lawyers) make documents difficult to read and understand for one simple reason... so that we can charge all of you big money!

Don't you guys know that!
No, you do this in order to make any contract or law as cryptic and difficult to read as possible. If normal people were able to read all those 'hereinafters', 'forasmuches' and 'witnesseth's' without headache you (lawyers) would have to look for a more honest jobs... like politics or drug dealing, for example.
...or doctors (MD): try to read their prescriptions, etc.
They do that in Latin (or so I've heard).
That's where "etc" comes in: I was talking about their writing in general, it is so hard to read whether they use Latin, or English