Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1971
Abstract
Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate even with oneself in private thought profoundly influences the quality of that effort; but when one attempts to transmit an idea to another, language assumes even greater significance because of the possibilities for enormously distorting the idea. Word-skill is to be prized. Few have expressed this more aptly or succinctly than Wesley N. Hohfeld: ...[I]n any closely reasoned problem, whether legal or nonlegal, chameleon-hued words are a peril both to clear thought and to lucid expression.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Allen, Layman E. "Right1, Right2, Right3, Right4, and How about RighT?" In Human Rights: Amintaphil I, edited by Ervin J. Pollack. Lakewood, California: Jay Stewart Publications, 1971.