Meanings of legal phraseology in English

In legal phraseology, a criminal is one who has been duly convicted of crime.

You see, uncle Wellington, your education has not rendered you familiar with legal phraseology.

I took these and read them over carefully, yet without fully comprehending the legal phraseology.

But this was only formal legal phraseology, meaning nothing.

The more imposing one-theagreement- Iplacedbeneath; its dry legal phraseology was not at all inviting.

And they repeated the oath after him in a broken, drawling chorus, stumbling over the formal, legal phraseology.

You needn't read it now, as the girl turned the pages and glanced down the confusion of legal phraseology.

We watch his methodizing spirit at work on the cumbrous legal phraseology, hammering it out into clear, ductile French.

It provided in the proper legal phraseology for an equal division of the testator's estate between the widow and Carl.

Informal, in spite of the dead woman's obvious effort to couch it in legal phraseology....

She brought out her "full and complete effect," if we may borrow that strong term from legal phraseology.

I do not wish to encumber your understanding with its legal phraseology, but I will acquaint you with the spirit of its contents.

In this somewhat legal phraseology love is bound to sex, age, and social classes; it is either natural or unnatural, legitimate or the reverse.

Jean recognized her uncle's ostentatious attempt at legal phraseology and knew, even without the evidence of his angular writing, that the document was genuine.

(N.B.- Ihavethought it advisable here and there to translate the legal phraseology into more comprehensible verbiage.)

' Legal phraseology is a useful thing, and it often saves trouble in the end; but it ain't indispensable, you know.'