ABSTRACT
Sweden has always been ahead of the rest of the world in the quest for clarity in the law (Asprey 2003, 23). Indeed, there is a long history of support for greater clarity in Swedish legislation. The 1783 Ordinance for the Royal Chancery under King Charles XII required that
the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavour to write in clear and plain Swedish and not to use, as far as possible, foreign words.
