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Also: Why does / did legal writing prefer the structurally complex multipart sentence in the original article to this simpler two sentence version?

Is there some formal ambiguity in the two-sentence version which the one-sentence version does not have?

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on this subject does anyone have any texts that detail the formalities and intricacies of legalese?

I have often found the writings of legal professionals especially compelling when I've encountered them informally in the wild (newspapers, articles etc) and would like to replicate it myself.

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