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Arkansas Code of 1987 (2024)
Title 16 - PRACTICE, PROCEDURE, AND COURTS (§§ 16-1-101 — 16-131-206)
Subtitle 2 - COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS (§§ 16-10-101 — 16-24-101)
Chapter 10 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 16-10-101 — 16-10-1108)
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 16-10-101 — 16-10-144)
Section 16-10-107 - Process and proceedings to be in English language
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AR Code § 16-10-107 (2024)
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All writs, process, proceedings, and records in any court shall be in the English language, except that the proper and known name of process and technical words may be expressed in the language commonly used. They shall be made out on paper or parchment, in a fair and legible character, in words at length and not abbreviated; but such abbreviations as are commonly used in the English language may be used. Numbers may be expressed by Arabic figures or Roman numerals in the customary way.
Rev. Stat., ch. 43, § 18; C. & M. Dig., § 2102; Pope's Dig., § 2706; A.S.A. 1947, § 22-108.
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