Salt Lake Herald | 1909-01-17 | Page 29 | Legal Word Specialists

LEGAL WORD SPECIALISTS Have to te Know Exact Shade of Mean MeanIng MeanIng Ing in Words and Phrases New cw York Press P II Some people seem cem to think that an Im Important legal document can be drawn up by a lawyer r In the time It takes his client to smoke a cigar remarked a law clerk lerk the other day It takes time and the most scrupulous care to get things Just right If lawyers lawers were not careful the Lord only knows where the clients client would land landby Why by I know a man in one of the great law offices who is a specialist In Inthe Inthe Inthe the exact shade hade of meaning of each word or phrase used In a legal document Nothing goes out of that office without being submitted to him to pass upon Sometimes be he will give gIn a week to the study of but one short but very vcr Im Important Important paper papu theorizing as to the pos possibilities of its meaning being construed this way and that When he hI gets through with a document however howver and has haa submitted every eer word of it to the acid test t t there is practically no chance of ot Its not being exactly right as to Its verbiage at least I a t In some cases casel too it itIs ItI itIs Is I deemed desirable by b clients to becloud the meaning of a contract so ro that there Is a loophole le for Its being construed In another way In tho the event elInt of certain con contingencies contingencies occurring That Is ts where the services of an expert word Juggler are an indispensable The biggest case that I ever eer heard of In this line was a few months ago when one ona of the great corporations wished to issue isUe some mortgage bonds against Its It i property A long contract had bad to be drawn and the wording on the back of the bond bad had to be decided upon The matter was so important that after the attorneys themselves had decided on the forms to toO be bt used wed it was wu turned over oer to two of these experts in verbiage They looked up tIP the dictionary meaning of practically every word used In the two documents and made innumerable changes chances and suggestions Before the pa papers pars ners were finished thirty different drafts of earh arh of the two documents had been made and there was not a word used lii In the final form fonn of the papers that had hadnot hadnot not been considered carefully not only as to Its Individual meaning but also as all to its individual relation to the other words of the phrase or sentence contain containIng containIng Ing inc It It Is safe sate to say IQ av that these two documents U are never likely to be M as u assailed sailed called successfully tr Ir r a court OUrt of law lawand lawand lawand and that they mean man exactly f what the corporation alI auti its It I ro Com ns withed wished th them n nt t to men mea