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Arkansas Code Title 16. Practice, Procedure, and Courts § 16-10-107. English language requirements

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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.

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