Timeline for Why don't US courts use numbered paragraphs?
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| Jul 4, 2023 at 3:36 | comment | added | ohwilleke | "a google (I have no formal study of American law) seems to suggest that court papers such as written arguments often require numbered paragraphs." Practice varies greatly. California requires court documents to have line numbers. Some court documents, such as legal briefs, have page numbers but not paragraph numbers. Motions and "pleadings" such as complaints, have numbered paragraphs in most jurisdictions, but not all. Also, not all U.S. statutes have paragraph numbers and the formats are not consistent even within particular U.S. states. | |
| Jul 4, 2023 at 2:24 | answer | added | ohwilleke | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 13:11 | history | edited | Jen |
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| May 14, 2020 at 18:34 | comment | added | K-HB | @curiouseuropean This practice ist not very old in Germany (and I think also for the European Court) either. It comes with publication in the internet that courts give paragraph numbers themself. Before it was numbered (or not) by each legal journal (so potential competing numberings) and cited by page in the (semi-)official collection (in form of books). | |
| May 13, 2020 at 3:38 | comment | added | phoog | A quick look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_landmark_court_decisions suggests that the practice was adopted in the UK between 16 and 27 years ago. | |
| May 13, 2020 at 3:29 | comment | added | phoog | Like inches and Fahrenheit, the question you should be asking is when and why other common law jurisdictions adopted the practice of numbering paragraphs. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 21:11 | comment | added | user6726 | In part, because we use page numbers instead. | |
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