Possible Clues:

• They must be served to get to the point at the end
• Pronounces judgement on Spooner's double set of senses?
• They're said to be passed in court
• Judgements
• Books are full of these court judgments
• Sequences of words used in court judgements
• Strings of words satisfying grammatical rules
• They're separated by periods
• Nick spells strings of words?
• Ten scenes excitingly depicted in series of words