… I dunno. The law is technical and dense for a reason. These terms exist so that there is no uncertainty in what is meant. Sure, the laymen is uncertain of what happened but people aware of these technicalities hear them and know instantly cut and dry what they mean.

Plain English leaves lots of room for interpretation. It’s how companies find loop holes for taxes and such because their “humanoid action figures” are mutants and not humans do they can’t be taxed.

Or how if you look at Chuck Taylor’s they come with a little fuzz on the bottom, so they can technically be classified as a slipper and are taxed less. (Chuck Taylors didn’t have fuzz on the bottom until Reebok bought them out in the 2000s.)