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Language and Law: Brevity and Drafting in Law, Business, and the Social Sciences

By: Joseph Shattah  
Open Access
|Oct 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2019-0021 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6059 | Journal ISSN: 0860-150X
Language: English
Page range: 155 - 171
Published on: Oct 18, 2019
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