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Law French was an archaic form of Old French/Anglo-Norman used in English courts from around the 11th century (in the Norman Conquest) until the 17th century, albeit in an extremely simple, debased form. Can the tide of decline and obsolescence be halted? Is it possible to keep an archaic language alive in the courts, after it's long since gone the way of the dinosaur beyond them?

None of the policies that eroded it over the generations really look like a decisive deathblow except maybe Cromwell cleaning house of legalistic rituals, but by 1650 Law French was doomed anyway, so there's less of a clear POD earlier on that would lead to the language sticking around. Maybe the English continuing to have a pied-à-terre in France, but one that's still small enough that it doesn't demographically overwhelm England and turn it into a barren colonial outpost of a Norman/Angevin/Aquitainian kingdom, might keep French (and thus Law French) relevant in England beyond the 14th-15th centuries? Or is the best-case scenario for the French in the English courts of law to merely merge back into a continental French standard?
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