The Resource The Language of Judges :
The Language of Judges :
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The item The Language of Judges : represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Contents
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- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Judging Language -- 1. Chomsky and Cardozo: Linguistics and the Law -- Cardozo's Hope: Keeping the Law Flexible -- Chomsky and the Nature of Linguistic Knowledge -- Chomsky, Cardozo, and Mrs. Palsgraf -- 2. The Judge as Linguist -- The Last Antecedent Rule -- Mrs. Anderson's Case -- Processing Strategies and the Last Antecedent Rule -- The Across the Board Rule: Mr. Judge -- Drugs and the Last Antecedent Rule -- Last Antecedents and Legal Canons -- Empty Words: The Interpretation of Pronouns -- Mr. Bass -- Pronouns and Taxation -- The And/Or Rule -- Problems of Scope-And Means Or -- Support of Delinquent Children-The Problem with And/Or -- Mr. Caine-Or Means And -- Adjectives and the Linguistics of Capital Punishment -- Why Judges Do Not Make Good Linguists -- 3. Stacking the Deck -- The Rule of Lenity -- Yermian: Lenity and the Scope of Adverbs -- What about Brown? -- RICO-Lenity and the Meaning of Words -- The Linguistics of Insurance Policies -- The Jacober Accident -- Ignoring Language-Partridge -- Understanding Ambiguous Contracts -- 4. When the Language Is Clear -- How Plain Can Language Be? -- The "Plain Language" of RICO -- When the Language and Its Opposite Are Both Plain -- Understanding Patterns: RICO as an Unclear Statute -- Turkette and Russello Revisited: Some More Fuzzy Concepts -- When Is Plain Language Enough? -- 5. Too Much Precision -- The Quest for Precision -- Pronouns, Precision, and the Law -- Pronouns and the Fifth Amendment -- Devices to Limit Ambiguity of Reference in Legal Language -- Party of the First Part -- Replacing Pronouns with Names -- Said and Same -- Using Special Words -- The War against Legal Language -- How Much Better Can We Do? -- 6. Some Problems with Words: Trying to Understand the Constitution -- People, Corporations, and Other Creatures -- What Is a Corporation
- Corporations, the Lexicon, and the Fifth Amendment -- Testimony and the Act of Speech -- The Current State of the Fifth Amendment -- Speech Acts: Linguistics and the Fifth Amendment -- Admissions -- Admitting by Bleeding -- What Is a Search? -- The Word "Search" -- The Fourth Amendment and the Lexicon -- Some Easy Cases and Some Hard Ones -- 7. Why It Hasn't Gotten Any Better -- Anderson and the Status Quo -- Expanding Legal Doctrine -- Getting Tough -- The Language of Judges -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Index
- Isbn
- 9780226767895
- Label
- The Language of Judges :
- Title
- The Language of Judges :
- Language
- eng
- Cataloging source
- MiAaPQ
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Solan, Lawrence M
- Dewey number
- 349.73/014
- LC call number
- KF8775
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Chicago Series in Law and Society
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Analysis (Philosophy)
- Electronic books. -- local
- Judges -- United States -- Language
- Judicial opinions -- United States -- Language
- Judicial process -- United States
- Law -- United States -- Language
- Semantics (Law)
- Label
- The Language of Judges :
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- online resource
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- rdacarrier
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- multicolored
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Judging Language -- 1. Chomsky and Cardozo: Linguistics and the Law -- Cardozo's Hope: Keeping the Law Flexible -- Chomsky and the Nature of Linguistic Knowledge -- Chomsky, Cardozo, and Mrs. Palsgraf -- 2. The Judge as Linguist -- The Last Antecedent Rule -- Mrs. Anderson's Case -- Processing Strategies and the Last Antecedent Rule -- The Across the Board Rule: Mr. Judge -- Drugs and the Last Antecedent Rule -- Last Antecedents and Legal Canons -- Empty Words: The Interpretation of Pronouns -- Mr. Bass -- Pronouns and Taxation -- The And/Or Rule -- Problems of Scope-And Means Or -- Support of Delinquent Children-The Problem with And/Or -- Mr. Caine-Or Means And -- Adjectives and the Linguistics of Capital Punishment -- Why Judges Do Not Make Good Linguists -- 3. Stacking the Deck -- The Rule of Lenity -- Yermian: Lenity and the Scope of Adverbs -- What about Brown? -- RICO-Lenity and the Meaning of Words -- The Linguistics of Insurance Policies -- The Jacober Accident -- Ignoring Language-Partridge -- Understanding Ambiguous Contracts -- 4. When the Language Is Clear -- How Plain Can Language Be? -- The "Plain Language" of RICO -- When the Language and Its Opposite Are Both Plain -- Understanding Patterns: RICO as an Unclear Statute -- Turkette and Russello Revisited: Some More Fuzzy Concepts -- When Is Plain Language Enough? -- 5. Too Much Precision -- The Quest for Precision -- Pronouns, Precision, and the Law -- Pronouns and the Fifth Amendment -- Devices to Limit Ambiguity of Reference in Legal Language -- Party of the First Part -- Replacing Pronouns with Names -- Said and Same -- Using Special Words -- The War against Legal Language -- How Much Better Can We Do? -- 6. Some Problems with Words: Trying to Understand the Constitution -- People, Corporations, and Other Creatures -- What Is a Corporation
- Corporations, the Lexicon, and the Fifth Amendment -- Testimony and the Act of Speech -- The Current State of the Fifth Amendment -- Speech Acts: Linguistics and the Fifth Amendment -- Admissions -- Admitting by Bleeding -- What Is a Search? -- The Word "Search" -- The Fourth Amendment and the Lexicon -- Some Easy Cases and Some Hard Ones -- 7. Why It Hasn't Gotten Any Better -- Anderson and the Status Quo -- Expanding Legal Doctrine -- Getting Tough -- The Language of Judges -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Index
- Control code
- UMKCLawddaEBC574775
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226767895
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- computer
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- rdamedia
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- c
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- UMKC Law: DDA record.
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- (MiAaPQ)EBC574775
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- (OCoLC)656855931
- Label
- The Language of Judges :
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
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- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Judging Language -- 1. Chomsky and Cardozo: Linguistics and the Law -- Cardozo's Hope: Keeping the Law Flexible -- Chomsky and the Nature of Linguistic Knowledge -- Chomsky, Cardozo, and Mrs. Palsgraf -- 2. The Judge as Linguist -- The Last Antecedent Rule -- Mrs. Anderson's Case -- Processing Strategies and the Last Antecedent Rule -- The Across the Board Rule: Mr. Judge -- Drugs and the Last Antecedent Rule -- Last Antecedents and Legal Canons -- Empty Words: The Interpretation of Pronouns -- Mr. Bass -- Pronouns and Taxation -- The And/Or Rule -- Problems of Scope-And Means Or -- Support of Delinquent Children-The Problem with And/Or -- Mr. Caine-Or Means And -- Adjectives and the Linguistics of Capital Punishment -- Why Judges Do Not Make Good Linguists -- 3. Stacking the Deck -- The Rule of Lenity -- Yermian: Lenity and the Scope of Adverbs -- What about Brown? -- RICO-Lenity and the Meaning of Words -- The Linguistics of Insurance Policies -- The Jacober Accident -- Ignoring Language-Partridge -- Understanding Ambiguous Contracts -- 4. When the Language Is Clear -- How Plain Can Language Be? -- The "Plain Language" of RICO -- When the Language and Its Opposite Are Both Plain -- Understanding Patterns: RICO as an Unclear Statute -- Turkette and Russello Revisited: Some More Fuzzy Concepts -- When Is Plain Language Enough? -- 5. Too Much Precision -- The Quest for Precision -- Pronouns, Precision, and the Law -- Pronouns and the Fifth Amendment -- Devices to Limit Ambiguity of Reference in Legal Language -- Party of the First Part -- Replacing Pronouns with Names -- Said and Same -- Using Special Words -- The War against Legal Language -- How Much Better Can We Do? -- 6. Some Problems with Words: Trying to Understand the Constitution -- People, Corporations, and Other Creatures -- What Is a Corporation
- Corporations, the Lexicon, and the Fifth Amendment -- Testimony and the Act of Speech -- The Current State of the Fifth Amendment -- Speech Acts: Linguistics and the Fifth Amendment -- Admissions -- Admitting by Bleeding -- What Is a Search? -- The Word "Search" -- The Fourth Amendment and the Lexicon -- Some Easy Cases and Some Hard Ones -- 7. Why It Hasn't Gotten Any Better -- Anderson and the Status Quo -- Expanding Legal Doctrine -- Getting Tough -- The Language of Judges -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Index
- Control code
- UMKCLawddaEBC574775
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226767895
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- UMKC Law: DDA record.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (MiAaPQ)EBC574775
- (Au-PeEL)EBL574775
- (CaPaEBR)ebr10409371
- (OCoLC)656855931
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