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• “Remit” and “Remittance”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 418
  The words remit and remittance occur relatively often in contracts. Black’s Law Dictionary gives as one definition of remit “To transmit (as money) (upon receiving the demand letter, she promptly remitted the amount due).” And here’s how it defines remittance : “1. A sum of money sent to another as ...
  4 days ago

• Drafting Without Punctuation?

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 418
  A participant at my recent seminar in Ottawa reminded me of something I’d never paid much attention to—the idea that one should draft without punctuation. It’s a hoary old notion that still lingers in Commonwealth jurisdictions. Here’s what an Australian text has to say on the subject: Traditional legal ...
  4 days ago

• “Hereby Grants” or “Hereby Grants To”?

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 418
  Warning: grammar nerdiness ahead. In license agreements I see the following two alternative constructions: Acme hereby grants Widgetco a license to … Acme hereby grants to Widgetco a license to … The second alternative represents the inferior choice. Consider the following sentences: I gave John a book. ...
  4 days ago

• "Mac Market Share Hits All-Time High Following Windows 7 Launch" and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 158
  TheAppleBlog Microsoft’s advertising strategy with the latest installment of Windows is basically to none-too-subtly deride its predecessors, and it does appear to be helping Windows 7 gain traction among consumers. Windows 7 Usages Reaches 3% of Web-Connected PCs
  1 week ago

• “Addendum”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 418
  Someone recently asked me what I thought of using the word addendum in connection with contracts. I’m not crazy about it. Black’s Law Dictionary defines addendum as “Something to be added, esp. to a document; a supplement.” So an addendum adds something to a contract, but it’s not clear whether you’re ...
  1 week ago

• Wall Street Journal Article and Video on “Throughout the Universe”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 418
  The Wall Street Journal has published this article on use of the phrase throughout the universe in contracts. And below is the accompanying video. I’m featured fleetingly in both. Most of my interview ended up on the cutting-room floor, presumably because my take on this subject was dreadfully earnest: The ...
  1 week ago

• “Irrevocably”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 418
  Recently the word irrevocably attracted my attention. It means “unalterably.” And more often than not it’s redundant. That’s because generally when a contract party takes an action, it follows that absent anything in the contract to the contrary, the action can’t be undone. Consider the following ...
  1 week ago

• “Formally” and “Formal”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 418
  The word formally occurs fairly often in contracts. It appears in 994 contracts filed as “material contracts” on the SEC’s EDGAR system in the past year. Here are some examples: Lender may conclusively rely on such certificate until formally advised by a like certificate of any changes therein. All ...
  2 weeks ago

• World of Warcraft in the nets traffic patterns

  
  WoW.com — Authority: 657
  Arbor Networks is a company that continually monitors the Internet and its usage -- they keep track of Internet outages and site visits on a global scale. They just recently released a report of when traffic peaks in the evenings around the world , and at least one of their results is about the game were all ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Arising Out Of and Relating To”—Third Time’s a Charm

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 418
  One function of this blog is to give me a forum for screwing up without embarrassing myself too much. In this blog post from last month, I took a second crack at analyzing arising out of and relating to . Further reflection revealed that effort to be, well, lame, and I’ll be deleting it in the next few days. ...
  3 weeks ago

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