The benefit of using a Defined Term (usually with initial capital letters) in a contract or legal document is that it makes it easier to read, and consistent. However… when used to excess they can easily backfire: elements of the commercial deal do not belong in a definitions section, acronyms
Boilerplate (a term adopted from the printing industry) refers to a series of short clauses at the end of a legal document or contract, often grouped under a heading of ‘general’ or ‘misc’. But this approach, treating them as irrelevant small print shoved at the back and rarely read, undermines
It is already December and for some of us that means we have been putting off questions about what we are doing over the festive period for a few months! Some of us will even put off putting up our decorations until it is nearly Christmas Eve… just to avoid
Although Marie Kondo might be the 21st minimalist icon, back in the 19th century William Morris said: have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful We can apply this approach to contracts. What do we know to be useful or
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