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    This document discusses the translation of contracts from oral to written forms and the structure and language used in legal contracts. It notes that contracts evolve from oral agreements to written records to fully integrated written agreements. The structure of contracts uses fixed templates and formulas with legalese that aims for conservatism but also updating. Legal language in contracts employs formal and archaic terminology as well as long complex sentences, wordiness, and passive constructions.

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    This document discusses the translation of contracts from oral to written forms and the structure and language used in legal contracts. It notes that contracts evolve from oral agreements to written records to fully integrated written agreements. The structure of contracts uses fixed templates and formulas with legalese that aims for conservatism but also updating. Legal language in contracts employs formal and archaic terminology as well as long complex sentences, wordiness, and passive constructions.

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    This document discusses the translation of contracts from oral to written forms and the structure and language used in legal contracts. It notes that contracts evolve from oral agreements to written records to fully integrated written agreements. The structure of contracts uses fixed templates and formulas with legalese that aims for conservatism but also updating. Legal language in contracts employs formal and archaic terminology as well as long complex sentences, wordiness, and passive constructions.

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    Translating contracts

    Oana Cogeanu-Haraga
    From evidentiary to authoritative

     Private legal transactions

     oral → evidentiary → authoritative written text

     Enforceable contracts:
     Oral agreement
     Oral agreement with written record 
     Integrated written agreement
    Structure and language

     Fixed structure
    ↑ formulas and templates
     Legalese
    between conservatism and updating
    Formal, archaic
    Wordiness and redundancy
    Impersonal and passive constructions
    Long, complex sentences
    Terminology
    Supplementary reading: http://www.languageandlaw.org/LEGALTEXT.HTM
    Formulaic language
     set formulas
     structural elements
     standard clauses Equivalence

     headings
     style and syntax

    Operative language Adequacy


     contract information

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