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  2. Last antecedent rule - Wikipedia

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    [6] Kenneth A. Adams, author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, has criticized this canon of construction and rigid approach as being applied inconsistently and contrary to the guidance of many manuals of style: [1] Manuals of style recognize that the comma is used to indicate a slight break in a sentence.

  3. Committee of Five - Wikipedia

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    On June 11, the Committee of Five was appointed: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Because the committee left no minutes, there is some uncertainty about how the drafting process proceeded.

  4. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United ...

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    A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a three-volume work by John Adams, written between 1787 and 1788.The text was Adams’ response to criticisms of the proposed American government, particularly those made by French economist and political theorist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, who had argued against bicameralism and separation of powers.

  5. WordRake - Wikipedia

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    WordRake is a Seattle-based company that produces editing software of the same name.WordRake software is intended to improve the brevity and clarity of writing. [1] [2] WordRake is used in over 7000 law firms (its initial market), and in businesses, government agencies, and academia.

  6. New Engineering Contract - Wikipedia

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    The New Engineering Contract (NEC), or NEC Engineering and Construction Contract, is a formalised system created by the UK Institution of Civil Engineers that guides the drafting of documents on civil engineering, construction and maintenance projects for the purpose of obtaining tenders, awarding and administering contracts.

  7. Interpreting contracts in English law - Wikipedia

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    Interpreting contracts in English law is an area of English contract law, which concerns how the courts decide what an agreement means. It is settled law that the process is based on the objective view of a reasonable person , given the context in which the contracting parties made their agreement.

  8. Legal writing - Wikipedia

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    The drafting of legal documents such as contracts is different as, unlike in most other legal writing categories, it is common to use language and clauses that are derived from form books, legal opinions and other documents without attribution. Lawyers use forms documents when drafting documents such as contracts, wills, and judgments.

  9. Treaty of Amity and Commerce (France–United States)

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    As a result, John Adams began drafting conditions for a possible commercial treaty between France and the future independent colonies of the United States, which declined the presence of French troops and any aspect of French authority in colonial affairs. [9] Congress sent Silas Deane to France to negotiate.