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Author Williams, Miriam F., author

Title From Black codes to recodification : removing the veil from regulatory writing / Miriam Williams
Published Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (v, 161 pages)
Series Baywood's technical communications series
Baywood's technical communications series.
Contents Introduction : race, regulations, and trust -- Case study I-Texas Black codes of 1866 : identifying discourse markers of trust -- Texas laws and tacit laws : redefining black labor from "the nadir" to civil rights -- Case study II-Texas agencies : the challenge of evoking trust -- Case study III-contemporary black business owners : legalese, plain English, or both? -- An invention heuristic for regulatory writing
Summary "First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Law -- United States -- Language
Administrative regulation drafting -- United States
Bill drafting -- United States
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- History
Administrative regulation drafting.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Bill drafting.
Law -- Language.
Texas.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0895036614
9780895036612