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Scope of Legal Language
Scope of Legal Language
OF LEGAL LANGUAGE
ARUNA KAMMILA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DSNLU
• Compared with science, technology and medicine
legal education is less technical
• Persian language
• After 1826 English replaced Persian
• Initially only rules and regulations but no principles
of law were taught
• 1885 in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras law classes
were a permanent feature
• 1857 Law studies was declared as a permanent part
of each University.
• Many prominent persons started their career as
Mukhtars.
Meaning
• Language that is used by the persons engaged in legal
profession.
• Law is technical subject like any other subject
• Legal language is not merely a language the adjective
‘legal’ shows that it is a specific language different
from a normal language and its interpretation is
carried out by this specific language.
• E.g. constitutional language is a part of the legal
language, moreover it is the foundation by which the
laws obtain their statutory status.
Critical Value of law and legal language