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   "text": "Legal accumulation is produced by a specific legislative practice: new regulations are layered over existing ones without repealing outdated provisions. The resulting corpus is more complex and less transparent, which raises compliance costs for individuals and businesses.",
   "abstract": "However, the practice of layering new regulations over existing ones without repealing outdated provisions leads to legal accumulation. This accumulation makes the legal system more complex and less transparent, increasing the compliance costs for individuals and businesses.",
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   "text": "Expanding regulatory oversight across sectors produces regulatory accretion, the cumulative growth of rules, which yields a complex and sometimes contradictory legal environment and burdens the very agencies charged with enforcement and oversight.",
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