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By contrast “Relevant Amount”, “Relevant Date”, or “Notice” — these are ''not'' effective signifiers. Relevant to what? Notice of what? If you are eighty pages into a security trust deed, this will not help your frame of mind.
By contrast “Relevant Amount”, “Relevant Date”, or “Notice” — these are ''not'' effective signifiers. Relevant to what? Notice of what? If you are eighty pages into a security trust deed, this will not help your frame of mind.
On the other hand, you can take things too far: “Noteholder Early Redemption Option Exercise Notice” — real life example — barely saves any space at all, especially when all it means is “a notice in the form set out in Schedule 4 (''Form of Noteholder Early Redemption Option Exercise Notice'') of the Agency Agreement.” This definition falls into the other trap of being so intuitive that is doesn’t need to be a definition at all (see ''When to use definitions'' below).
===''When'' to use definitions===
===''When'' to use definitions===
In two cases:  
In two cases: