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    <title>manual of style for contract drafting</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Adams, Kenneth A.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>American Bar Association</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2008</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2008</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxxiii, 451 p. 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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 -- Select usages -- Numbers and formulas -- Provisions specifying drafting conventions -- Typography -- Drafting as writing -- Amendments -- Letter agreements -- Drafting and corporate resolutions.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Kenneth A. Adams.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Contracts</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Language</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Legal composition</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Contracts</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KF 807 .A33 2008</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">808/.06634</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781604420289</identifier>
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