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The part of the document nobody reads but everyone cites in arguments.
means A smaller numbered or lettered division within a section, used to break a larger piece of writing into more precise, citable chunks.
from Straightforward Latin carpentry: 'sub-' meaning 'under' or 'beneath,' plus 'section,' from 'sectio' — a cutting, from 'secare,' to cut. A subsection is literally a cut made under an already-cut piece — the legal and bureaucratic mind's way of slicing text finer and finer until every clause has its own numbered drawer.
- legal love
- lawyers cite subsections to sound more precise than they are
- nesting depth
- section, then subsection, then you lose the will to read
- symbol flex
- often marked with a tiny silent section-sign sibling, SS