ADVISORY BOARD AMERICAN CASEBOOK SERIES HORNBOOK SERIES AND BASIC LEGAL TEXTS NUTSHELL SERIES

MATERIALS

ON

JESSE H. CHOPER
Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley

LEGAL DRAFTING

DAVID P. CURRIE
Profe.sor of Law University of Chicago

DAVID G. EPSTEIN
Dean and Professor of Law University of Arkansas

By

REED DICKERSON

Professor of La'w, Indiana University

ERNEST GELLHORN
Professor of Law University of Virginia

YALE KAMISAR
Professor of Law University of Michigan

WAYNE R. LaFAVE
Professor of Law University of Illinois

RICHARD C. MAXWELL
Professor of Law Duke University

AMERICAN CASEBOOK SERIES

ARTHUR R. MILLER
Professor of Law Harvard University

JAMES J. WHITE
Professor of Law University of Michigan ST. PAUL, MINN.

CHARLES ALAN WRIGHT
Professor of Law Univer.ity of Texas

WEST PUBLISHING CO.
1981

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WHAT LEGAL DRAFTING IS ABOUT

Ch.2

46 U.S.C.A. S808

Chapter 3
SOME BASICS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND MEANING

"* * * Foreign-built vessels admitted to American registry or en­ rollment or license under this chapter * * * may engage in the coast­ wise trade of the United States * * *"
46 U.S.C.A.

S13
(A) TIlE FUNCTIONS OF lANGUACE

"All foreign-built vessels admitted to American registry, owned on February 1, 1920, by persons citizens ofthe United States, and all foreign­ built vessels owned by the United States on June 5, 1920, when sold and owned by persons citizens of the United States, may engage in the coast­ wise trade so long as they continue in such ownership, subject to the rules and regulations of such trade."

L. S. STEBBING, A MODERN INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC, pp. 16-17

Methuen and Company. Ltd., 7th ed., 1950.

We have so far spoken as though the main function oflanguage were to communicate information. This is no doubt a most important function. For science it is its sale function. For this reason a science, in propor­ tion as it