As a philosophy major in college, we were always making up words to describe concepts that we wrote about. You know how Word underlines non-words, and you can right click and select "add to dictionary"? I had to do that all the time in college, and now I'm finding that we have to do the same thing in law school. These aren't fictional words to the same extent as philosophy words were, but I guess they're unconventional enough to be left out of Word's dictionary.
Here's a list of the words (or "words") that Word doesn't recognize, just from today so far:
- Promisor
- Promisee
- Promissory
- Disaffirmance
- Appellee
- Estop
- Estopped
Those are just from today, and I'm sure I'll find many more to add to that list.
ADDED: One of the commenters found more legal "words" to add to the list.
- Dilectual
- Dispositive
- Liberative
