Legistics

Legistics est un recueil d’articles portant exclusivement sur les questions de rédaction en anglais des textes législatifs. La nature même de l’ouvrage fait en sorte qu’il n’est offert qu’en anglais.

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• Part 1 - Words and Expressions

  • Attributing meaning to terms
  • Body Corporate and Corporation
  • But
  • Comprise
  • Consider
  • Days After
  • Deem
  • Definitions
  • Everyone and Anyone
  • Expiry, expiration and end
  • Expressing Obligations and Prohibitions
  • Expressing Permission, Powers or Rights
  • Expressing Possibility
  • Expressing Universality
  • First Nation(s) - Aboriginal
  • Formula Descriptions
  • Geographical names
  • Gender-neutral Language
  • Hereby
  • However
  • If, where and when
  • Members of Parliament
  • Notwithstanding, alternatives to
  • One (pronominal use)
  • Possessives
  • Pursuant to
  • References to Text in Columns
  • Restrictive elements
  • Rounding of numbers
  • Series of Nouns
  • Such
  • Terms and conditions
  • Themselves (singular)
  • There - words
  • They (singular)
  • Time periods
  • Triad separators in metric measurements

• Part 2 - Sentences

  • Cross-references
  • More than one sentence in a section or subsection
  • Present indicative
  • Sentence structure: Complexity and organization

• Part 3 - Paragraphing

  • What is paragraphing ?
  • Why paragraph ?
  • How do you paragraph ?
  • The logical relationship among paragraphed elements
  • Conjunctions between paragraphs
  • Punctuation of paragraphs
  • When should you paragraph ?
  • Table of factors and examples

• Part 4 - Punctuation

  • Compounds and Hyphenation
  • Em dashes

• References

  • Printed reference material
  • On-line reference material

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