Against Latin
I often blather on about avoiding Latin in legal writing. I think it should all go, even though when I speak to lawyers I always concede terms of art like habeas corpus and res ipsa loquitur. Just now I've been reading The Party of the First Part by Adam Freedman, and he's made some excellent points.
The usual justification for clinging to Latin is that phrases like habeas corpus sound silly if translated into English. "I'm bringing a you-have-the-body motion" just doesn't have the force of "I'm bringing a habeas motion." But this argument assumes, again, that word-for-word translation is the only option . . . . In fact, good English synonyms for habeas corpus already exist: it has been called the write of liberty and the Great Writ, both of which are perfectly good English phrases. Or one could come up with a new name for habeas corpus; call it a "custody challenge motion" or an "anti-detention motion."Adam Freedman, The Party of the First Part 137.
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One should certainly avoid Latin phrases one does not understand. "Habeas" is the subjunctive, so "habeas corpus" means, "May you have the body." Literally, a habeas corpus action was a demand on the person having custody of someone so that the king could justify the imprisonment.
One does not file habeas "motions" either. They are petitions.
Although I also dislike Latin in legal writing generally, I happen to like "inter alia." And "a fortiori" is both briefer and more elegant than any English equivalent and has its pedigree from philosophy and mathematics. That pedigree adds something, I think, in a strictly logical argument.
"Assuming arguendo" is a truly detestable use of a detestable dative Latin gerund. Unfortunately, the expression too often precisely describes what the lawyer using it is doing: "Assuming for the sake of arguing," not merely for the sake of argument.
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