## Metadata - Author: [[Steven Pinker]] - Full Title: The Sense of Style - Category: #books ## Highlights - though nonlawyers might assume that the language of contracts, such as the party of the first part, must serve some legal purpose, most of it is superfluous. As Adam Freedman points out in his book on legalese, “What distinguishes legal boilerplate is its combination of archaic terminology and frenzied verbosity, as though it were written by a medieval scribe on crack.”19 ([Location 1098](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00INIYG74&location=1098))