LEGISTICS

Part 1 - Words and Expressions

• Attributing meaning to terms
• Body Corporate and Corporation
• But
• Comprise
• Consider
• Days After
• Deem
• Definitions
• Everyone and Anyone
• Expiry, expiration and end
• Expressing Obligations and Prohibitions
• Expressing Permission, Powers or Rights
• Expressing Possibility
• Expressing Universality
• First Nation(s) - Aboriginal
• Formula Descriptions
• Geographical names
• Gender-neutral Language
• Hereby
• However
• If, where and when
• Members of Parliament
• Notwithstanding, alternatives to
• One (pronominal use)
• Possessives
• Pursuant to
• References to Text in Columns
• Restrictive elements
• Rounding of numbers
• Series of Nouns
• Such
• Terms and conditions
• Themselves (singular)
• There - words
• They (singular)
• Time periods
• Triad separators in metric measurements

Part 2 - Sentences

• Cross-references
• More than one sentence in a section or subsection
• Present indicative
• Sentence structure: Complexity and organization

Part 3 - Paragraphing

• What is paragraphing ?
• Why paragraph ?
• How do you paragraph ?
• The logical relationship among paragraphed elements
• Conjunctions between paragraphs
• Punctuation of paragraphs
• When should you paragraph ?
• Table of factors and examples

Part 4 - Punctuation

• Compounds and Hyphenation
• Em dashes

References

• Printed reference material
• On-line reference material