A manual of style for contract drafting / by Kenneth A. Adams.
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TextPublication details: Chicago, IL : American Bar Association, Business Law Section, c2017.Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xliii, 546 p. : 26 cm ; illContent type: - text
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- volume
- 9781634259644
- 23 346.730266 Ad171m
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Include Index (525-545)
Includes bibliographical references (page 515) and index.
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.