Pseudolegal

These phrases have been criticized as jargonistic and pompous. […] They appear frequently in legal and pseudolegal writing. They can usually be improved.

In a decision issued in response to a June 8, 2012 divorce case involving a self-declared “freeman on the land,” Court of Queen’s Bench Associate Chief Justice John Rooke analyzes what he calls “organized pseudolegal commercial argument” or OPCA litigants.