Opinion ID: 31525
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Provision VI.A.

Text: 14 ISP contends that despite its acceptance of liability in Provision VI.A., the fact that it does so in the midst of a provision that discusses Instone's status as an agent for airlines and other transportation vendors, and Instone's unconditional obligation to pay its vendors, mitigates the phrase's import. While it would appear, given its placement, that Instone included the phrase requiring its clients (i.e. ISP) to accept liability for services rendered to guard against the possibility that a client would claim that it did not need to pay for tickets that were unused, lost, or issued for travel on carriers who subsequently halted service. 15 The phrase, however, was not modified by any statements that limited its applicability to such scenarios. Instone's standard contract simply does not contemplate that a signatory would claim, after ordering and consuming the provided services, that it was not the party from whom Instone should seek payment. In the end, although the phrase Client acknowledges that it is unconditionally obligated to pay Contractor may have been included in the Agreement in order to prevent a client from wriggling out of the duty to pay for the goods that it ordered for reasons other than those claimed by ISP, this is not a sufficient ground to disregard the clear import of the phrase. 16