Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Words To Live By:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_02-2009_08_08.shtml#1249682367
From Justice Scalia's & Bryan Garner's Making Your Case:
If your brief repeatedly refers to the Secretary of Transportation
and mentions no other Secretary, it is silly to specify
parenthetically, the first time you mention the Secretary of
Transportation, "(hereinafter 'the Secretary')." No one will think
that your later references to "the Secretary" denote the Secretary
of Defense, or perhaps your own secretary.
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