Rider

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This article is about little bits of paper lawyers interleave in their mark-ups. For the horsemen of the apocalypse, see apocalypse. For the popular Doors song, see Google.

In our digital age perhaps now a bygone artifact. When, in the good old days, lawyers negotiated by marking up draft contracts in handwriting, the rider was the last resort when there was no room on the margin to include your tortured prose in its entirety. “Rider 1” you would scrawl, and fax over a whole page of calculation agent dispute fallbacks. Such fun.

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• Fax