History — and I’m going way, way back — informs why lawyers write in redundancies.
Blame It on the French
When William the Conqueror imposed Norman law on England in the 11th century, the Anglo-Saxon population was already speaking its own language, and it wasn’t French. To make sure everyone understood what a law or contract meant, writers used both the Old English word and French.
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