A manual of style for contract drafting / Kenneth A. Adams.
Publisher's description: This manual's focus remains how to express contract terms in prose that is free of the archaisms, redundancies, ambiguities, and other problems that afflict traditional contract language. Kenneth A. Adams highlights common sources of confusion and recommends cleare...
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Chicago, Illinois :
American Bar Association, Business Law Section,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Adams, Kenneth A., |d 1961- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A manual of style for contract drafting / |c Kenneth A. Adams. |
| 250 | |a Fourth edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Chicago, Illinois : |b American Bar Association, Business Law Section, |c [2017] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2017. | |
| 300 | |a xliii, 547 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 26 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (page 515) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The characteristics of optimal contract language -- |t The front of the contract -- |t Categories of contract language -- |t Layout -- |t The back of the contract -- |t Defined terms -- |t Sources of uncertain meaning in contract language -- |t Reasonable efforts and its variants -- |t Material and material adverse change -- |t References to time -- |t Ambiguity of the part versus the whole -- |t Syntactic ambiguity -- |t Selected usages -- |t Numbers and formulas -- |t Internal rules of interpretation -- |t Typography -- |t Drafting as writing -- |t Amendments -- |t Letter agreements. |
| 520 | |a Publisher's description: This manual's focus remains how to express contract terms in prose that is free of the archaisms, redundancies, ambiguities, and other problems that afflict traditional contract language. Kenneth A. Adams highlights common sources of confusion and recommends clearer and more concise alternatives. This manual is organized to facilitate easy reference, and it illustrates its analysis with numerous examples. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Contracts |z United States |x Interpretation and construction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Legal composition. | |
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