Jörg Rathlev on 7 Dec 2001 12:15:11 -0000 |
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RE: spoon-discuss: RE: spoon-business: Proposal to create judicial system |
> > "No Calls for Judgement shall be made regarding > "shall" -> "may". Restrictive, not predictive. Hmmm. English is not my native language, but "shall not" seems to occur in US legalese in the same way as I used it, e.g. "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." Guessing based on your email address, you seem to come from the UK; is this maybe a British English vs. US English issue? Or is there really something wrong with my sentence? Joerg