[dustingetz]

> legal documents are written precisely to be as hard to misinterpret as possible

legal documents reuse diction that has been ruled on and has court established precedent, which creates a bias towards diction which ended up in court in the first place.

i read that in a HN comment somewhere, sorry, no citation.

[shabble]

That's a very interesting "survival of the most litigated" sort of evolution. I wonder how much of a given document is unnecessary evolutionary baggage copy & pasted because it's part of That Standard Clause. I'd love to read more if you happen to recall the comment/story

[DannyBee]

Only partially. The real reality is legal documents reuse stuff that the partner liked.