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[beezlebroxxxxxx]

In effect, we pay lawyers to be ridiculously pedantic for us where pedanticism is required or desired.

That level of pedanticism elsewhere, though, is incredibly annoying or precisely what is not desired.

[efitz → beezlebroxxxxxx]

I’ve wondered from time to time if we could replace some of the wordiness of laws and legal documents with bullet lists. For example, a trial about some interpretation of a word in a law could be contributed back to the law as a bullet point that says, “this also applies if …”.

[xnorswap → efitz]

What you're describing is law, most of it is bullet points, take for example the computer misuse act 1990, section 1:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/1

Or if you're more patient, the whole lot:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/crossheading/co...

It's all bullet points.

[FredPret → efitz]

> a trial about some interpretation of a word in a law could be contributed back to the law as a bullet point that says, “this also applies if …”.

Is this not what happens in case law?

[efitz → FredPret]

The law doesn’t literally get updated with a bullet point. Subsequently attorneys have to do ever greater searches to analyze all the precedents.