| Abstrakt: |
This article focuses on persuasion in American legal procedure. Rhetoricians are concerned with verbal activity affecting persuasion and operating in the area of the contingent, where choice is to be made among alternative courses of action. In legal procedure, under the adversary system practiced in American courts, the wisdom and justice of the court's decree is proportionate to the clarity by which both constructive and refutative lines of argument are presented by opposing counsel. Persuasion in legal procedure is in two forms, the written brief and the oral argument. |
