Associations to the word «Legalese»

Wiktionary

LEGALESE, noun. The technical talk of the legal profession, the argot of lawyers.
LEGALESE, noun. Wording that resembles how a lawyer writes, especially such that is confusing to the layperson.

Dictionary definition

LEGALESE, noun. A style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats