Drafting may be defined as the synthesis of law and fact in a language form This is the essence of the process of drafting. All three characteristics rank equally in importance. In other words, legal drafting is the crystallization and expression in definitive form of a legal right, privilege, function, duty, or status. It is the development and preparation of legal instruments such as constitutions, statutes, regulations, ordinances, contracts, wills, conveyances, indentures, trusts and leases, etc
The process of drafting operates in two planes
- The conceptual
- The verbal