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The way lawyers define shelter being shot through by storms
Answer for the clue "The way lawyers define shelter being shot through by storms ", 8 letters:
legalese
Alternative clues for the word legalese
- Attorneys' jargon
- Wind's penetrating shelter – it's the talk of the bar!
- What lawyer writes, accounting for storms in sheltered area
- Solicitor's jargon
- Court jargon
- It might include the adverbs "forthwith" and "heretofore"
- Bar jargon
- What some judicial opinions are written in
- Contract terms, at times
Word definitions for legalese in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
Usage examples of legalese.
Thicker than the Corban phone book, it was a perfect bound document filled with nearly a hundred single-spaced pages of text, all written in dense legalese.
Benedict allows it, you can subpoena me to testify, that much legalese I understand.
After the endless hours of negotiation, her sentencing was dry and full of legalese.
On the table sat the leather-bound business plans containing all the lease conditions, the numbers, and paragraphs of legalese about the dummy corporation Quentin had established to export tropical fruit.