Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speach Acts  by Marianne Constable

Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speach Acts

The Cultural Lives of Law

Marianne Constable

232 pages first pub 2014 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics sociology
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Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offer...

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