LawProse Lesson #436: What is Law French?
Law Prose
AUGUST 28, 2024
Rather more expansively, the newly issued 12th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary (2024) defines it as “the corrupted form of the Norman French language that arose in England after William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 and that was used for several centuries as the primary language of the English legal system.”
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