Comments on: Using Parentheses Instead of “Respectively” http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2009/01/06/parentheses-instead-of-respectively/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Ken Adams http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2009/01/06/parentheses-instead-of-respectively/comment-page-1/#comment-77127 Ken Adams Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:42:44 +0000 http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2009/01/06/parentheses-instead-of-respectively/#comment-77127 J.F.: Thank you for those suggestions. Of course, they have no bearing on the point I make in this post. Ken J.F.: Thank you for those suggestions. Of course, they have no bearing on the point I make in this post. Ken

]]> By: J.F.Reeh Taylor, Q.C. http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2009/01/06/parentheses-instead-of-respectively/comment-page-1/#comment-77122 J.F.Reeh Taylor, Q.C. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:09:45 +0000 http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2009/01/06/parentheses-instead-of-respectively/#comment-77122 In the interests of brevity and avoiding redundancy, would your 'new and improved' version not be better if you said "....pay to the Vendor.....the amounts, if any,...", thus avoiding the duplicate 'any'in lines 3/4 and 7/8? Perhaps, also, one might say "each applicable Acme Entity" where the words "the applicable one or more Acme Entities" appear twice in the present draft? In the interests of brevity and avoiding redundancy, would your ‘new and improved’ version not be better if you said “….pay to the Vendor…..the amounts, if any,…”, thus avoiding the duplicate ‘any’in lines 3/4 and 7/8?

Perhaps, also, one might say “each applicable Acme Entity” where the words “the applicable one or more Acme Entities” appear twice in the present draft?

]]> By: D. C. Toedt http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2009/01/06/parentheses-instead-of-respectively/comment-page-1/#comment-77109 D. C. Toedt Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:03:17 +0000 http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2009/01/06/parentheses-instead-of-respectively/#comment-77109 The parentheses are much better, IMHO. They let you quickly find the parallels between the agreement and the SoW. The parentheses are much better, IMHO. They let you quickly find the parallels between the agreement and the SoW.

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