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12 - Legal Indeterminacy in the Spoken Word*

from Part V - Demands of Law and Limits of Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2017

Janny H. C. Leung
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The University of Hong Kong
Alan Durant
Affiliation:
Middlesex University, London
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