Contract Drafting Powerful Prose in Transactional Practice, Third Edition.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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La Vergne :
American Bar Association,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Preface to 3rd Edition
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Contract Drafting
- Introduction
- What Is Drafting?
- What Does a Transactional Lawyer Do?
- Exercise
- Focus of this Treatise
- 1.1 Understand Key Differences between Contract Drafting and Legal Writing.
- 1.2 Define the Characteristics of Excellent Drafting.
- Exercise 1.2
- 1.3 Attend to Appearance.
- Case Study
- Chapter 2: Drafting in Transactional Practice
- 2.1 Explore the Status Quo of Drafting in the Legal Profession.
- Limitations of Law School Training
- The Benchmark of Subject Mastery
- 2.2 Barriers to Improvement.
- 2.3 The Strong Arm for Improvement.
- 2.4 Realize Potential Costs of Deficient Drafting.
- 2.5 Ethical Issues in Drafting.
- What Is "Competence" with Respect to Drafting a Contract?
- What Does an Incompetently Drafted Contract Look Like?
- An Incredibly Low Standard
- 2.6 Cultivate Personal Branding.
- Chapter 3: Avoid Ambiguity
- 3.1 Strive for Clarity
- Avoid Ambiguity.
- "Clarity," "Ambiguity," and "Vagueness"
- What Happens When Courts Encounter Ambiguity in Contracts?
- Who Knew What, and When?
- 3.2 Types of Ambiguity.
- Semantic Ambiguity
- o Patently ambiguous words
- o Latently ambiguous words
- o Usage issues
- Syntactic Ambiguity
- o Poorly organized sentences
- o Squinting modifiers
- o Misplaced modifiers
- o Dangling modifiers
- o Uncertain pronoun references
- o Prepositional phrases
- o Conjunctions
- o Only
- Contextual Ambiguity
- Exercise 3.2
- 3.3 Balance Competence and Vagueness.
- 3.4 How Grammar Errors Cause Ambiguity.
- 3.5 Consider Canons of Construction.
- Be Aware of Canons but Do Not Take Shortcuts
- o No excess words
- o Noscitur a sociis
- o Ejusdem generis
- o Expressio unius est exclusio alterius
- o Contra proferentem
- o Reddendo singula singulis
- o Ut magis valeat quam pereat
- o In pari materia
- Chapter 4: Focus on Words
- 4.1 Prefer Simple Words.
- How to Draft in Plain English
- Exercise 4.1
- 4.2 Avoid Archaic Customs.
- 4.3 Use Words Consistently.
- Best Efforts/Reasonable Efforts/Commercially Reasonable Efforts
- 4.4 Use "Shall" Consistently.
- The Great Debate
- Exercise 4.4
- 4.5 Avoid These Words in Contracts.
- Ambiguous Words
- o And/or: The Janus-Faced monstrosity
- o Provisos
- o Herein
- o Notwithstanding
- Legalese
- o Here-, there-, and where- words
- o Such, said, and same
- o Foreign phrases
- 4.6 Use Defined Terms Correctly.
- Errors with Integrated Definitions
- Complete or Incomplete?
- When and How to Use a Glossary
- Are Articles Required?
- Case Study 4.6A
- Case Study 4.6B
- 4.7 Use "That" or "Which" Correctly.
- Exercise 4.7