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A manual of style for contract drafting / by Kenneth A. Adams.
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| Authors: |
Adams, Kenneth A., 1961-
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Chicago : American Bar Association, 2008.
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2nd ed.
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| Description: |
xxxiii, 451 p. ; 23 cm
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Contracts -- United States -- Language. Contracts -- United States. Legal composition. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Language: |
English |
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9781604420289 1604420286 |
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The front of the contract -- Categories of contract language -- Layout -- The back of the contract -- Defined terms -- Sources of uncertainty 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 -- Select usages -- Numbers and formulas -- Provisions specifying drafting conventions -- Typography -- Drafting as writing -- Amendments -- Letter agreements -- Drafting and corporate resolutions.
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| Bib number: |
7250344 |
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http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/?itemid=|library/marc/uc|7250344 |
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Donor:
Acquired from the Ernst Freund Memorial Book Fund
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