im currently reviewing/studying for my civ pro midterm exam tomorrow. anyway, i remembered a jesuit professor's comment with regard to the way the law is written. he was right, these codal provisions make it hard for a layman to understand them! why do they do that? why do they have to make the phrasing and the manner they write the law hard to understand? as the jesuit professor said, the law is written like the hieroglyphic writings of the Egyptians, and only the lawyers can decipher them! so was this intentionally done so there would always be a need for lawyers to interpret them and that the layman could not read and interpret the law on his own? well, the latter of course makes sense but still, shouldn't the law at least be clear and easy to understand so people could know it on their own without asking for the assistance of lawyers. i mean, just a simple understanding of it? because the way it is written, it just discourages people because its not easy to absorb. well, not easy to absorb for me. like some of my law professors say, sometimes, the provision is difficult to understand that you have to outline it. that is why one of my friends indirectly suggested that studying the law is like learning a foreign language.