5 British and American English

Nepali legal writing follows the British convention, which is also the convention of the statutes, so consistency with the British form is the safer default. The differences that actually appear in drafting are few, and they are all questions of internal consistency rather than correctness. ItemBritish (use this)American Spellingjudgement (a court's decision), judgment (in some statutes), defence, offence, licence (noun) / license (verb), practise (verb) / practice (noun)judgment, defense, offense, license for both, practice for both Date12 November 2026November 12, 2026 Numbers1,00,000 in the Nepali lakh format; "Rs 5,000" not "Rs. 5,000.00"100,000; $5,000.00 Quotation marksDouble outside, single inside; punctuation outside the closing mark unless it is part of the quotationDouble outside; comma and full stop inside Collective nouns"The committee has decided" (singular) in modern usage"The committee has decided"