http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/01/29/new-law-review-article-ambiguity-and-or/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/01/29/new-law-review-article-ambiguity-and-or/comment-page-1/#comment-2475 Bloody Tuesday | nearlylegal Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:14:47 +0000 http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/01/29/new-law-review-article-ambiguity-and-or/#comment-2475 [...] I was considering a witty and elegant post on the worryingly recursive nature of the phrase ‘further or in the alternative’, following this piece on the ambiguity of ‘and and ‘or’ (thanks to Diane Levin’s blawgreview), then today happened. [...] [...] I was considering a witty and elegant post on the worryingly recursive nature of the phrase ‘further or in the alternative’, following this piece on the ambiguity of ‘and and ‘or’ (thanks to Diane Levin’s blawgreview), then today happened. [...]

]]> http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/01/29/new-law-review-article-ambiguity-and-or/comment-page-1/#comment-2305 AdamsDrafting » Blog Archive » A New “Or” Case! Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:48:03 +0000 http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/01/29/new-law-review-article-ambiguity-and-or/#comment-2305 [...] Last Monday posted this blog item about how St. John’s Law Review had published a new article by me and Alan Kaye entitled Revisiting the Ambiguity of “And” and “Or” in Legal Drafting. So when I discovered, courtesy of Howard Bashman via the (new) legal writer, that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals had considered the meaning of or in a decision filed on February 2nd, I didn’t know whether to be disappointed or pleased—disappointed because the case had come too late to include in my article, or pleased that hot on the heels of publication of my article a case had appeared that demonstrates that the meaning of or is a real issue. [...] [...] Last Monday posted this blog item about how St. John’s Law Review had published a new article by me and Alan Kaye entitled Revisiting the Ambiguity of “And” and “Or” in Legal Drafting. So when I discovered, courtesy of Howard Bashman via the (new) legal writer, that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals had considered the meaning of or in a decision filed on February 2nd, I didn’t know whether to be disappointed or pleased—disappointed because the case had come too late to include in my article, or pleased that hot on the heels of publication of my article a case had appeared that demonstrates that the meaning of or is a real issue. [...]

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