Crossword clues for legalese
legalese
- The way lawyers define shelter being shot through by storms
- Contract contents
- Some fine print
- Lawyer talk
- Jurist's jargon
- Jargon, to a jury
- What some judicial opinions are written in
- Language involving fine print?
- It might include the adverbs "forthwith" and "heretofore"
- Contract terms, at times
- Contract language
- Bar talk?
- Bar jargon
- Bar babble
- Bar lines?
- A style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
- Attorneys' jargon
- Party of the first part and party of the second part, e.g.
- Perry Mason's talk, maybe
- Court jargon
- Good beers in general creating talk at the bar?
- Wind's penetrating shelter – it's the talk of the bar!
- What lawyer writes, accounting for storms in sheltered area
- Solicitor's jargon
- Lawyers talk of high winds in shelter
- Lawyer's jargon
- Jargon used by members drinking beer close to judge?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
legalese \legalese\ n. A style of writing or speaking heavily emphasizing the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law, to the point where a speech or document may be incomprehensible to non-specialists.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the language of legal documents," 1914, from legal + language name ending -ese.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The technical talk of the legal profession, the argot of lawyers. 2 Wording that resembles how a lawyer writes, especially such that is confusing to the layperson.
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.