--I think there is a reason why legalese is not plain English
This is true. Part of the precision of legalese is that the meanings of some terms have already been more precisely defined by the courts.
This is true. Part of the precision of legalese is that the meanings of some terms have already been more precisely defined by the courts.
[1] https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/16-190...
The states and inputs that lawyers have to deal with tend to much more vague and imprecise (which is expected if you're dealing with human behavior and not text or some other encodeable input) and so have to rely on inherently ambiguous phrases like "reasonable" and "without undue delay."