Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1859 — Legal Circumlocution. [ARTICLE]

Legal Circumlocution.

What a round-about way lawyers have of drawing up deeds and documents. It is | almost enough to keep a nervous person from “going to law” at all. The following lis a sample. Suppose a man wished togive another an orange. Instead of making a simple declaration, and saying “I give you that orange,” he must set forth his act and deed in this way: “I do hereby give you, all and singular, my estate and interest, right, title-nnd claim, ami advantage of and in that orange, with all its rind, skin, pulp, juice and pips, and all right and advantages therein, with full power to cut, suck, hit©, or otherwise eat the same orange, or give tUo same away, with or without its rind, juice, pulp and pips, anything her«tofo;e- or hereinafter, or in any other deed or deeds, instruments of what kind or nature to the contrary or anywise, notwithstanding,”