Yesterday I revisited the question of the relationship between a license and the contract that grants the license. This issue arose in connection with a …
The ever-alert Steven Sholk has informed me of another legal opinion discussing syntactic ambiguity. This one was issued by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Sometimes one encounters in contract drafting issues that are of broader relevance. In MSCD, discussion of such issues is grouped in chapter 16, and on …
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 …
In addition to Ken’s posts from February 2013, this blog contains Ken’s posts from The Koncise Drafter (from December 2010 to February 2013) and from the AdamsDrafting blog (from May 2006 to December 2010).
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