Even now the student of law must come to terms with innumerable Latinate maxims and forms, and with a prolixity of expression that is a result of the plurality of national languages from which common law is derived.common legal phrases such as null,void,and of no further force and effect (from the latin nullius and effectus the frence vide and force)simply state the same idea in words derived from the different languages of common law. The resulting repetition does little more in practice than add an air of authority to an exercise in prolixity.