Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Statute as a Speech Act 5
5. 2. The Legal Document as a Communicative Act 25
6. 3. Potential Speech Acts 31
7. 4. Reversible Performatives 41
8. 5. ‘This’ and ‘That’ in Legal Texts 49
9. 6. What does a Judge do? 57
10. Footnotes 71
11. Appendix 75
12. References 77