A manual of style for contract drafting
By: Kenneth A. Adams
Contributors: American Bar Association. Section of Business Law
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: American Bar Association, Business Law Section; American Bar Association
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781614388036
Subjects: Contracts; Legal composition; Language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 457) and index.
Table of contents: title: The characteristics of optimal contract language; title: The front of the contract; title: Categories of contract language; title: Layout; title: The back of the contract; title: Defined terms; title: Sources of uncertainty in contract language; title: "Reasonable efforts" and its variants; title: "Material" and "material adverse change"; title: References to time; title: Ambiguity of the part versus the whole; title: Syntactic ambiguity; title: Selected usages; title: Numbers and formulas; title: Provisions specifying drafting conventions; title: Typography; title: Drafting as writing; title: Amendments; title: Letter agreements; title: Drafting corporate resolutions.