Wisdom from the Law Library

I came across this nugget of truth while toiling away in the depths of a law library today. It comes from the Bible of legislative interpretation, Sutherland Statutory Construction:

It is traditional that statutes are unreadable, indefinite, confusing, and
misleading.

To their credit, the authors of this venerable treatise provide good reasons for breaking with tradition. Luckily for the job security of lawyers everywhere, no one is reading this on Capitol Hill.