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Peculiarities of statutes: a glance at the language

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Paragraphing to aid readability of the contents: current legal drafters are serious about using paragraphing to set out cases and conditions, together with the legal subject and the legal action, as the essential components of provisions. As part of plain language techniques, the function of the paragraphing system is to aid readability of the provision, so that the logical relationships between in/dependent clauses in the (provision) sentence are revealed at a glance than would otherwise be without such a system.

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