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Originally Posted by Hitch
I'm talking about, in written case law and laws. As cavalier as they seem to be, certain terms (like "property," for one) do have meanings in law, and so, with certain notable exceptions (as in a certain health care law that nobody read), the staff lawyers do indeed take care with that type of thing, to prevent the very type of "yes, it is," "no, it isn't" debate we're having right here.
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Misuse is definitely more common in speech than writing. And it's got to be the lawyers-I'm not sure any of our politicians are intelligent enough to write.