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Take notes, you lovers of our legal system of

jurisprudence. This is law at its finest.

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Law is a unique profession. You must admit that we

lawyers are really creative. Like medical doctors

and other professionals, we invent our language,

knowing the average person can’t understand it.

After all, if you can’t understand what we say,
you need us more, right?

We lawyers call it ingenious. Some call it insanity.

But we love to use the language we invent.

We use words like the following:

res ipsa loquitur,

… stare decisis,

… respondeat superior,

… caveat emptor,

… voir doir,

… per stirpes,

… nunc pro tunc.

I like to throw in cape diem just because it sounds

legal, even though it isn’t.

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