Lost in Legalese: Can anyone help translate my lease into English?

princeofpounds

Lack of punctuation is actually a specific 'thing' in legalese. They like it. I forget the reason why, but I think it has something to do with helping legal clarity, even if it destroys real-world clarity.


Personally, I hate the stuff. But to be fair there are reasons it has grown up that go beyond a jargon designed to exclude non-initiates.


Certain phrases have been held to have certain meanings in the courts, and so they get copied and pasted forevermore. Even if they no longer make much sense in today's language.

PasturesNew

As has been said, out of context - and without the exact punctuation - it's possible only to guess at what it means in your case.

Punctuation changes a helping hand into sexual abuse:

I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse.
I helped my uncle jack off a horse.

marksoton

PasturesNew wrote: »

As has been said, out of context - and without the exact punctuation - it's possible only to guess at what it means in your case.

Punctuation changes a helping hand into sexual abuse:

I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse.
I helped my uncle jack off a horse.

:rotfl:........