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I think ask at this stage is to identify the basic elemental building blocks of commercial contracts. It strikes me there are two ways of achieving this: firstly, to identify and parameterise a limited number of canonical contractual propositions: obligations, discretions, rights, definitions, conditions precedent, representations. The objective here is to see if there is a small, manageable number of basic propositions which most contractual provisions can conform to. My hunch is that there is, and the apparently infinite complexity of legal drafting in fact subsists at a lower, syntactical level. for example, the “object” proposition is:
I think ask at this stage is to identify the basic elemental building blocks of commercial contracts. It strikes me there are two ways of achieving this: firstly, to identify and parameterise a limited number of canonical contractual propositions: obligations, discretions, rights, definitions, conditions precedent, representations. The objective here is to see if there is a small, manageable number of basic propositions which most contractual provisions can conform to. My hunch is that there is, and the apparently infinite complexity of legal drafting in fact subsists at a lower, syntactical level. for example, the “object” proposition is:
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