In rhetorical terminology, each genre of discourse has its own distinct topics and terms, as well as modes of dress, sites of appearance,and proper manners of elocution or delivery. Nowhere is this more evident than in law,which has historically been most strikingly distinct as a guild or community by virtue of using foreign languages of record and of reporting well into the modern era-law reports were in English after 1704 but latin and law French abounded in pleadings,writs, and judgments.