Statutes need general language because draftsmen cannot anticipate all applications.

Evidence

Would you not in any case have felt obliged to formulate at least for yourself the general objective which provided the organizing principle of your conclusions? Would you not have tried to reflect that objective in general language in the statute in order to take care of unforeseen applications? — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 831

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Legislatures cannot foresee every result of unguarded statutory language — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1335

Broader Connections

• Legislatures cannot foresee every result of unguarded statutory language #corroborates (0.92) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 1335