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title: vicious legal-ese
date: '2008-12-12'
tags:
- law
draft: false
legacy_url: https://lu.is/2008/12/vicious-legal-ese/
legacy_source: wordpress
---

From the Vermont corporations statute:

(26)  “Meeting” means any structured communications conducted by participants in person or through the use of electronic or telecommunications medium permitting simultaneous or sequentially structured communications for the purpose of reaching a collective agreement.

It scares me that not only is this now comprehensible to me, but that I can understand the basic thought process that led to it being written that way. Doesn't mean I like it, though, except on the odd chance that some day I'll be able to torture my enemies with it.