The Language Of Legalese

If you stop and think about our every day language, you'll notice there's not one real kind of english.
Yes, there is proper english that we all learn in school, but there are other kinds of english too.
There's english that is spoken differently between Canada and the US, or other places like the UK.
There's slang english (dialects) even within countries that varies from place to place.
There's english definitions used in intellectual studies such as psychology or biology.
There's english in the medical field, in the army and many more professions that has different definitions of the words.
There's even the etymology of words; the original definition of words.

The one though that is most prominent and most dangerous - the english that none of us know but ironically it seems to apply to everyone... is called legalese.

Legalese is the english language that the law society uses - lawyers, judges, policy makers etc.
This is the kind of english that is cited in the legislations - the acts and statues that allegedly give power of authorities to hold power over you - to control the things you do and punish you if you do wrong by them.

Whenever anyone asks about sovereignty or freedom in general in terms of freeing one's self from government rule and opening your mind to the game that's really before you - I suggest they get their hands on a blacks law dictionary. Generally it's a good idea to read versions 1-4, which can often be easily found on the internet to download for free.
World freeman society used to have an accessible online first and second editions but have since been removed.
You can find a link HERE to download first and second editions via pdf to your computer, as the online version no longer works through the Freeman website. Versions five and up have a lot of case law in them vs. common law and other law rulings. These kinds of case law rulings can be great if you know what you're doing in court and can swing jurisdiction around on them in your favour, but otherwise they're useless as you should use a lawyer instead if you intend on operating under the jurisdiction of the bar.

If you take a peek into the dictionary, you can see basic definitions have changed from that of websters.

Take for example the word driver.
When you think of the word driver - you think to yourself someone like you and I behind the wheel of a car.
A google definition of the word says this,

a person who drives a vehicle.

The definition in a blacks law second edition dictionary says this,

one employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle, with horses, mules or other animals, or a bicycle, tricycle, or motor car, though not a street rail road car.

Well wait a moment?

If you are not employed while going from point A to point B in your car, does that mean you are a driver?

Take another definition, a person.
Google search tells us it's this,

a human being regarded as an individual.

Black's law first edition says however,

A man considered according to the rank he holds in society, with all the rights to which he holds entitles him and the duties which it imposes. A human being considered capable of having rights and of being charged with duties; while a "thing" is the object over which rights may be exercised. Persons are divided by law into natural and artificial. Natural persons are such as the God of nature formed us; artificial are such as are created and devised by human laws, for the purposes of society and government, which are called "corporations" or "bodies politic."

Did your mind just get blown a little bit?

Here's the best bit. If you hop over to Canada's Interpretation Act and check out the definition of person it will tell you,

person, or any word or expression descriptive of a person, includes a corporation; (personne)

Boom.

The next time you read any legislation or hear any member of the bar say any definition, be sure to check out what they are actually saying in a dictionary instead of the colloquial definition we're so used to using. With that very language, they are roping you into things you do not comprehend, and thus need an interpreter representing you - your lawyer.