LaLenglish: Latin Legal English

What is Latin Legal English? It’s what happens to the language when it enters jurisprudence. Modern English turns into a version of Latin, definite and indefinite articles notwithstanding. It’s not vulgar Latin, spinning carelessly with its romantic curves and turns. No. LaLenglish marches in measured paces as if walking the plank or preparing for battle.

Words, sentences, phrases, and paragraphs in LaLenglish are tools of a legal, programming language that directs the movement or conveyance of actions. “Motions” literally move a legal pleading to take an action such as a “motion to strike;” a verbal command to kill a noun or pleading, as it were.