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There isn't one because the law is not a programming language.

Believing otherwise is a common misconception amongst engineers, but representing law as such is (as I have said in this forum before) a leading cause of disappointment, frustration, bickering, anger, conflict, and vexatiously long and mostly unenforceable contracts.

Observance of law is fundamentally about alignment with principles, not blindly following a set of rules. The latter debility is more properly associated with the administration of law, especially at its most mediocre and ritualistic.



This is less about observance with the laws and more about how to verify that lawyers are doing their jobs properly, sort of tools like ide for developer. Often times lawyers make mistakes like in the article or even file things in the wrong court or deficient forms . More like an ide for developers .

That said, it is a great disappointment of mine that the law is not based on an objective, static measure.




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