Replace the numeral with a word
Style note2Law reviews21st and 22nd editions
A number below one hundred is spelled out as a word in the body of a document and in its footnotes — “fourteen days”, not “14 days” — while larger numbers use figures.1
- Wrong
- 14 days
- Right
- fourteen days
- 1R. 6.2(a) Numerals. Tables: R. 6.2(a)(iii) Numerals; R. 6.2(a)(vi) Numerals.
- 2A style note: the rule in note 1 allows both forms and prefers one.