Re:CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specifica...
by lolinder on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:20PM
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It's the standard in the US, too, but "child" is a case where plenty of lawmakers have assumed it couldn't possibly be misunderstood, while plenty of others have defined it with contradictory definitions in their respective sections.
The latter is better than the former, but it also makes it even harder to interpret sections with no definition.
Which is why it is the common standard in German law to define every possibly unclear term either in the relevant section of the law itself or in an introduction article.