Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Texas
unique characters in the citation of legal documents
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I am trying to ascertain the origin and the reason for the continuing use of a unique character in the citation of legal documents in Texas, and specifically, in the citation of pleadings.
The character in question appears, for lack of a better description, as two ''fancy'' letter ''s'' stacked on top of one another. These characters often separate parties to the litigation (to the left) and other information in the citation to the right.
Any response would be appreciated.
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Re: unique characters in the citation of legal documents
It's not universal, many people use a ")" in lieu of the charector you're describing (usually referred to as a section symbol.) I think before the dawn of the typewritter the first printers used a very large "}" to denote that all the parties listed on the left side of the page were in the court designated on the right hand side of the page. Lawyers, being mostly luddites, refuse to acknowledge that their computers are not typewriters, have clung to the section symbol. At least that's my theory.
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