A manual of style for contract drafting
By: by Kenneth A. Adams.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9781604420289
Subjects: Contracts -- United States -- Language; Contracts -- United States; Legal composition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: 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: Select usages; title: Numbers and formulas; title: Provisions specifying drafting conventions; title: Typography; title: Drafting as writing; title: Amendments; title: Letter agreements; title: Drafting and corporate resolutions.