Prepositions and their usage in legal English
LUG-105 English and Legal Language, Unit II: Prepositions and their usage. · LLB · 60 min
The preposition - the small word that fixes a legal relation. Place, time, direction and agency prepositions with their rules; the fixed prepositions after adjectives (injurious to, weak in, grateful to ... for, liable for / to), after verbs (accused of, charged with, convicted of, acquitted of, appeal against) and in the stock phrases of drafting (subject to, in accordance with, without prejudice to); and the errors of Indian English. The papers test this as 2-mark fill-ins, which this lecture answers one by one.
Objectives
- Define a preposition and identify its object and the prepositional phrase it forms
- Use in, at, on and the other prepositions of place, time and direction correctly
- Supply the fixed preposition after the common adjectives, verbs and nouns of legal English
- Explain the stock prepositional phrases of drafting (subject to, in accordance with, without prejudice to)
- Correct the preposition errors common in Indian English and answer the papers' fill-in questions
Slides
- What a preposition is
- Prepositions of place: in, at, on and the rest
- Prepositions of time
- Direction, movement, agency, instrument and cause
- Fixed prepositions after adjectives
- Fixed prepositions after verbs
- Prepositions after nouns and the phrases of drafting
- Common errors of Indian English
- Exercise with answers
- How the examiner asks it
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