pseudolegal
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pseudolegal (not comparable)
- Having a superficial appearance of according with the legal profession but in reality lacking competence in it or flouting its values.
- 1988, Bryan A. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage:
- These phrases have been criticized as jargonistic and pompous. […] They appear frequently in legal and pseudolegal writing. They can usually be improved.[1]
- 2012, Brent Wittmeier, Edmonton Journal, September 27, 2012 (archived)
- In a decision issued in response to a June 8, 2012 divorce case involving a self-declared “freeman on the land,” Court of Queen’s Bench Associate Chief Justice John Rooke analyzes what he calls “organized pseudolegal commercial argument” or OPCA litigants.
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superficial legal appearance
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References edit
- ^ Garner, Bryan A. (2009). Garner’s Modern American Usage, third edition. Oxford University Press; 2009; headword "affirmative".