A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting

by Adams, Kenneth A.

• ISBN13: 9781604420289
• ISBN10: 1604420286
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Amer Bar Assn

Summary

"Here is the second edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, which has established itself as a proven resource for lawyers, contract administrators, and others who are called on to draft, review, negotiate, or interpret contracts." "This manual's focus remains not what provisions to include in a given contract, but how to express those provisions in prose that is free of the problems that often afflict contract language. With exceptional rigor and an unmatched level of practical detail, Adams highlights common sources of inefficiency, confusion, and dispute and recommends clearer and more efficient alternatives. This manual +s organized to facilitate easy reference, and it illustrates its analysis with copious examples."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Kenneth A. Adams is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Samples
The Front of the Contract	p. 1
Categories of Contract Language	p. 27
Layout	p. 75
The Back of the Contract	p. 95
Defined Terms	p. 111
Sources of Uncertainty in Contract Language	p. 127
"Reasonable Efforts" and Its Variants	p. 133
"Material" and "Material Adverse Change"	p. 149
References to Time	p. 181
Ambiguity of the Part Versus the Whole	p. 193
Syntactic Ambiguity	p. 215
Select Usages	p. 227
Numbers and Formulas	p. 321
Provisions Specifying Drafting Conventions	p. 335
Typography	p. 341
Drafting as Writing	p. 359
Amendments	p. 375
Letter Agreements	p. 381
Drafting Corporate Resolutions	p. 385
Appendix	p. 401
Before	p. 402
Before, Annotated	p. 410
After	p. 425
Certain Works Cited	p. 433
Cases Cited	p. 439
Index	p. 443
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