The Readable Delaware General Corporation Law 2017-2018 with Patented VisiLaw Markings

Abstract

This paper contains a short introduction to VisiLaw and a complete, VisiLaw-marked copy of the Delaware General Corporation Law, including all laws enacted during the Delaware legislature’s regular session ending June 30, 2017. VisiLaw is a system for marking statutes to make them easier to read. The markings visually separate sentences, and clauses within sentences, making it easy to see where each begins and ends. The ability to see sentence structure at a glance makes it possible to read clauses one at a time, without losing orientation in the overall structure. Within each constituent clause, underlining identifies a skeletal sentence – subject, verb, direct object and a few other words. The underlining enables the reader to quickly get the gist, and understand the structure, of the constituent clauses.

Keywords: readable, Delaware, corporation law, VisiLaw, Delaware General Corporation Law