A manual of style for contract drafting /

A manual of style for contract drafting /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Adams, Kenneth A., 1961- author.
Edition:	Third edition.
Imprint:	Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, Business Law Section, [2013] ©2013
Description:	xxxiv, 477 pages ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Contracts -- United States -- Language. Contracts -- United States. Legal composition. Contracts -- Interpretation and construction. Legal composition. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9097233

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Other authors / contributors:	American Bar Association. Section of Business Law.
ISBN:	9781614388036 (spiral bound) 1614388032 (spiral bound)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (page 457) and index.

Table of Contents:

The characteristics of optimal contract language
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
Selected usages
Numbers and formulas
Provisions specifying drafting conventions
Typography
Drafting as writing
Amendments
Letter agreements
Drafting corporate resolutions.