A manual of style for contract drafting /

A manual of style for contract drafting / Kenneth A. Adams.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Kenneth A., 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, Business Law Section, [2017]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Contracts > United States > Interpretation and construction.
Legal composition.
Contracts.
Contracts > Language.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The characteristics of optimal contract language
  • The front of the contract
  • Categories of contract language
  • Layout
  • The back of the contract
  • Defined terms
  • Sources of uncertain meaning in contract language
  • Reasonable efforts and its variants
  • Material and material adverse change
  • References to time
  • Ambiguity of the part versus the whole
  • Syntactic ambiguity
  • Selected usages
  • Numbers and formulas
  • Internal rules of interpretation
  • Typography
  • Drafting as writing
  • Amendments
  • Letter agreements.

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