The paper takes into consideration legislative provisions from a linguistic point of view. It applies tests of language in a number of texts belonging to the common law drafting practice to ascertain a loss of conceptual focus by legislative drafters and concludes that linguistics can provide a method by which drafters can assess the effectiveness of their draft.

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上下文中的立法条文：一种语言学方法

该文件从语言的角度考虑了立法规定。它在属于普通法起草实践的许多文本中应用语言测试，以确定立法起草者在概念上的重点缺失，并得出结论，语言学可以提供一种方法，使起草者可以评估其草案的有效性。