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Worksheet for Legal Drafting and Research (ULaw 206)

This is a test paper you are expected to do on your own. It carries 15 points. The
test paper should be completed and mailed to the School of Distance and
Continuing Education for evaluation. Do not try to complete the worksheet until
you have covered all the lessons and exercises in the course material.

Any questions in the course that you have not been able to understand should be
stated on a separate sheet of paper and attached to this worksheet. Your tutor
will clarify them for you.

After completing this test paper, be certain to write your Name, Id.No and
Address on the first page. Your Name and Id.No on the other pages only.
I. Choose the best answer for each of the following questions.

1. Which of the following is a more serious problem than the others in legal
drafting?
A. Ambiguity B. Vagueness
C. Obesity D. Over-precision
2. Which one of the following is an important tool in achieving clarity and
understandability in legal drafting?
A. Consistency B. Sound arrangement
C. Normal usage D. All of the above
3. Which one of the following statements is true?
A. A draftsman is not expected to understand the intention of his client before
he start drafting the instrument.
B. Students who have been taught laws at law schools do not need to engage
in legal research.
C. The first thing that must be done by a legal researcher is identifying facts.
D. All of the above.
4. The course one legal drafting may not be important for you when you prepare one
of the following instruments.
A. Memorandum of association of companies.
B. A marriage contract.
C. Articles of association of an ‘edir’.
D. Personal letters.
5. One of the following is not a composition step in legal drafting. Which one?
A. Revision C. Making across-the-board checks
B. Applying the polish D. Sound arrangement

II. Say True or False

1. Definitions play remarkable roles in achieving clarity and understandability in
legal drafting.

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2. In arranging legal instruments, we have to resolve the problems of division,
classification and sequence in order to produce a qualitative legal instrument.
3. Vagueness, like ambiguity, is a serious disease of language.
4. Facts are of no value for a legal researcher.
5. The final step in legal research is formulating the legal issues to be researched.

III. Answer the following questions

1. Why is a draftsman expected to understand the substantive policy of his client?

2. Assuming that you are a legal draftsman of a proclamation, where will you
probably put the preamble of the proclamation, if any?
3. What is the difference between semantic ambiguity and syntactic ambiguity?
4. Discuss the difference between mandatory authority and persuasive authority.
5. What do you understand by bibliography? Discuss its importance in legal
research.