Office style
A lawyer's style is a linguistically elaborate written correspondence , especially when dealing with authorities , lawyers and courts .
history
The origin of the term can be traced back to the Middle Ages ; There the canzley-style comprised formal writing rules for judicial documents and official texts defined in handbooks , including technical Latin terms.
present
In today's everyday language , the term often has a negative meaning (cf. jurists' Latin ). It is mainly used when a text is criticized because of its lengthiness and the accumulation of nested sentence structures and foreign words. An example of this office style is the definition of the railway company by the Reichsgericht ( judgment of March 17, 1879; RGZ 1, 247, 252):
"A railway company is a company aimed at the repeated movement of people or things over not entirely insignificant stretches of space on a metal basis, which is intended to enable the transport of large weights or the achievement of a relatively significant speed of the transport movement by its consistency, construction and smoothness , and through this peculiarity in connection with the natural forces also used to generate the transport movement (steam, electricity, animal or human muscle activity, with an inclined plane of the railway also the own weight of the transport vessels and their load, etc.) in the operations of the company the same is able to produce a comparatively powerful (depending on the circumstances only useful in a purposeful way, or human life-destroying and human health injurious) effect. "
See also
Web links
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Eduard Engel : German stylistics :
- Page 509-513
- Page 389 f. (Examples)