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OP The problem with trying to answer a question such as "what phrases are unique to the law?" is that one who uses them all them time in likely unaware that they are unique. It is a bit like, when I visit an Episcopal congregation for the first time to celebrate the mass there as a visiting priest and I ask the folks "What do you do here that is strange?", they look at me and assure me that they do nothing strange at all. I have to discover their liturgical oddities in the midst of the Eucharist because they are not at all strange to those who do them constantly.
P.S. I did rather enjoy one fellow who was accused of drunk driving. A civilian witness testified that the accused drove his vehicle from its proper lane of travel over a strip dividing the lanes into two directions, thereby entered the on-coming lane. The defendant then testifed, with vehemence, "I did not cross the medium." I imprudently quipped, "That's good, because they can change your future, I hear."
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