TY - BOOK AU - Adams,Kenneth A. TI - A manual of style for contract drafting SN - 9781604420289 AV - KF 807 .A33 2008 U1 - 808/.06634 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Chicago PB - American Bar Association KW - Contracts KW - United States KW - Language KW - Local KW - Legal composition N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -