Must a contract term be one sentence?

Contract drafting, Punctuation

In a contract drafting workshop last week, we were looking at a 126-word definition of a 3-word phrase. Someone asked, “Is there a rule that a definition has to be just one sentence?” There is no such rule, in English contract law or in life. But it was a sensible...

$10 million dispute for want of a comma

Judgments, Legislation, Punctuation

Opinions differ on the value of adding a comma to remove ambiguity in sentences such as this: “I would like to thank my parents, Mother Teresa and the pope”. The Maine Legislative Drafting Manual advised against the comma. But one law that followed the advice remained...
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