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Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...
Last week lovers of verbal clarity placed the eldest of the Wisconsin Supreme Court's seven Justices on a pedestal beside Senator Glass. Up for decision had been a complex case involving an insurance company which insured "C. D. Brower, Jr. and/or the Sturgeon Bay Company," against liability for accidents except "to any employe of the assured. . . ." Brower was a trucker who had contracted to do a job for Sturgeon. When a Sturgeon employe was injured in a collision with a Brower employe the insurance company tried to wiggle out of paying Brower's damages by arguing that...
...operation is to be performed, have the patient, or his guardian, give consent in writing, or verbal consent in the presence of a witness...
Perhaps it was the intuition of Adolf Hitler which let this windy provocation pass, and in Rome the intuition of Benito Mussolini was also working overtime, verbal postures of British electioneers, the pained uproar of Continental editors, and the general Homeric hubbub of last week were vastly flattering to the British voter, made him glow with a feeling that his Government, to create such a stir, must indeed deserve many a ballot. Electioneerings...
...dealing: secret personal communications between Dictator Benito Mussolini and British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were acknowledged to have taken place. II Duce shrewdly wrote in Italian and had Ambassador Dino Grandi read off an ex tempore verbal translation to Sir Samuel, after which Grandi departed with the secret sheets of Mussolini's message and may well have burned them. Whether or not Sir Samuel's end of the deal was handled with equal discretion in Rome by British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, who for 14 years was Secretary General of the League of Nations, the cynicism...