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Adding the word "legally" about 15 years ago was a purposeful and announced editorial change.
Seeing that the casebook play hasn't changed, I'm now fairly certain that the removal of the word was probably a well-intentioned effort to clean up the sentence by removing an adverb that seemed purposeless. This could have been done by an intern who was in 3rd grade 15 years ago and didn't understand the historical context of the adverb in question.
I'm just wondering why it seems the book must be re-proofread cover to cover every year? If you're not dealing with a section that had changes, and you haven't received any commentary or feedback about a particular section or article, why even bother proofreading it? If it aint broke, don't fix it!
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