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We can tease, but Mr. Adams ploughs a lonely furrow, single-handedly taking the fight for elegant drafting to his countrymen and women. As he goes, he is by necessity surrounded by attorneys whose favourite language game is complicating simple ideas. | We can tease, but Mr. Adams ploughs a lonely furrow, single-handedly taking the fight for elegant drafting to his countrymen and women. As he goes, he is by necessity surrounded by attorneys whose favourite language game is complicating simple ideas. | ||
So, we are grateful to Mr. Adams, and full-bloodedly raise our glass in salute to him — it is no small matter to dedicate 27 pages to why one should write “states” rather than “represents and warrants” in a [[contract]] and, even then, not entirely make out your case<ref>Interested readers can enjoy Mr. Adam’s disquisition [https://www.adamsdrafting.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Adams-Eliminating-the-Phrase-Represents-and-Warrants-from-Contracts.pdf 27-page here]</ref> — | So, we are grateful to Mr. Adams, and full-bloodedly raise our glass in salute to him — it is no small matter to dedicate 27 pages to why one should write “states” rather than “represents and warrants” in a [[contract]] and, even then, not entirely make out your case<ref>Interested readers can enjoy Mr. Adam’s disquisition [https://www.adamsdrafting.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Adams-Eliminating-the-Phrase-Represents-and-Warrants-from-Contracts.pdf 27-page here]</ref> — but it’s a sound ice-breaker should you be stuck next to someone dull at the ABA’s annual contract draftsperson’s gala dinner, as has happened to the JC before.<ref>Of course, we are kidding. You don’t honestly think the JC would be seen dead at an ABA gala dinner, do you?</ref> | ||
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*[[Representations and warranties]] | *[[Representations and warranties]] | ||
*That dreadful [[FT book about derivatives]] (''not'' written by Mr. Adams, but somehow comparable in tone, price, heft at utility.) | *That dreadful [[FT book about derivatives]] (''not'' written by Mr. Adams, but somehow comparable in tone, price, heft at utility.) | ||
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