Bryan A. Garner, Jeff Newman, Tiger Jackson — The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, Third Edition

14 published claims from this book.

• A semicolon acts as a strengthened comma, not a colon
• Ending a sentence with a preposition is grammatically valid and often more natural
• English spelling is hard because words come from many source systems.
• Footnote presence signals scholarly credibility to readers.
• Incorrect legal citations can trigger sanctions and undermine credibility
• No hard rules decide how to spell invented compound words.
• Punctuation choices subtly shift tone through the feel of each mark
• Straight quotation marks are typographic blemishes with no excuse
• Style rules enable skillful departure only after being mastered
• Tax evasion is illegal while tax avoidance is legal.
• The slash is inherently ambiguous because it can express either conjunction or disjunction
• Unique is an absolute term except in contract-specific-performance law.
• Voluntariness concerns the act, intent concerns the motive.
• Waiver is often misused for laches and estoppel.