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Promptly versus immediately - Ken Adams
Posted February 4th, 2008 by DCT in
Ken Adams has posted a useful annotated essay about the distinction between "promptly" and "immediately." I agree with his conclusion:
Because immediately seems to promise more than it can deliver, you should omit it from your contracts. Use promptly instead. If you want a standard more demanding than promptly, specify a limit in days. Or combine the two standards—promptly, but in no event later than X days after ….
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Responsible efforts
Posted January 24th, 2008 by DCT in
Ken Adams, proprietor of Adams Drafting, writes today about the problems with using terms like "best efforts" and "reasonable efforts." Let me add to the possible confusion by proposing the term "responsible efforts."
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Examples; "including"
Posted August 16th, 2007 by DCT in
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New blog feed - please change your feed reader settings
Posted July 22nd, 2008 by DCT in
The Pactix project is settling into a new identify, Drafter's Choice. I want to consolidate the various blog RSS feeds into one, so PLEASE CHANGE YOUR FEED READER SETTINGS to point to http://www.drafterschoice.com/feed/rss/. The easiest way to do this is probably just to click on the link in the previous sentence and sign up for the new feed.
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Pactix
Pretty good contract forms to give your lawyer a great head start (under construction)
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New blog feed - please change your feed reader settings
Posted July 22nd, 2008 by DCT in
The Pactix project is settling into a new identify, Drafter's Choice. I want to consolidate the various blog RSS feeds into one, so PLEASE CHANGE YOUR FEED READER SETTINGS to point to http://www.drafterschoice.com/feed/rss/. The easiest way to do this is probably just to click on the link in the previous sentence and sign up for the new feed.
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Examples; "including": Examples are used in this Agreement for purposes of illustration, not of limitation, unless another meaning is clear from the context. The same is true for the terms "include," "including," etc.
Pactix
Pretty good contract forms to give your lawyer a great head start (under construction)
This Web site is in semi-stealth mode (management isn't publicizing it much). See the Legal Stuff.
New blog feed - please change your feed reader settings
Posted July 22nd, 2008 by DCT in
The Pactix project is settling into a new identify, Drafter's Choice. I want to consolidate the various blog RSS feeds into one, so PLEASE CHANGE YOUR FEED READER SETTINGS to point to http://www.drafterschoice.com/feed/rss/. The easiest way to do this is probably just to click on the link in the previous sentence and sign up for the new feed.
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This definition of "example" and “including” relieves the contract drafter from the annoyance of writing (and the contract reviewer from the annoyance of reading) the phrase "including, by way of example and not of limitation" instead of simply "including for example."
Pactix
Pretty good contract forms to give your lawyer a great head start (under construction)
This Web site is in semi-stealth mode (management isn't publicizing it much). See the Legal Stuff.
New blog feed - please change your feed reader settings
Posted July 22nd, 2008 by DCT in
The Pactix project is settling into a new identify, Drafter's Choice. I want to consolidate the various blog RSS feeds into one, so PLEASE CHANGE YOUR FEED READER SETTINGS to point to http://www.drafterschoice.com/feed/rss/. The easiest way to do this is probably just to click on the link in the previous sentence and sign up for the new feed.
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Affiliate definition - notes
Posted August 16th, 2007 by DCT
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