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He did one about [[successors and assigns]] in the June 2013 issue of ''Which! Advocate'', and I cannot improve on it in any way, so simply [https://www.adamsdrafting.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Advocate-Successors-Assigns-June-July-2013.pdf commend it to you]. | He did one about [[successors and assigns]] in the June 2013 issue of ''Which! Advocate'', and I cannot improve on it in any way, so simply [https://www.adamsdrafting.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Advocate-Successors-Assigns-June-July-2013.pdf commend it to you]. | ||
There are ''seven'' possible justifications for a successors and assigns clause, Mr. Adams patiently explains; five can be found in | There are ''seven'' possible justifications for a successors and assigns clause, Mr. Adams patiently explains; five can be found in Tina L. Stark’s 700-page monster ''{{plainlink|https://store.lexisnexis.com/products/negotiating-and-drafting-contract-boilerplate-skuSKU10180493alm|Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate}}'' — now ''there’s'' a dinner party of the spheres — and Mr. Adams has imagineered up a couple more. In his meticulous, stone-turning fashion, he persuades us: ''not a one of them makes a jot of sense''. | ||
Ms Stark, charitably, supposes the origin of “[[successors and assigns]]” clause to be so obscure and its modern form so truncated “that its objectives are veiled”: since no-one knows what it is for and it does no harm, as is ''de rigueur'' among fearful [[legal eagles]], what one doesn’t understand one is best to leave well alone. Hence its improbable survival, a male nipple for the legal set. | Ms Stark, charitably, supposes the origin of “[[successors and assigns]]” clause to be so obscure and its modern form so truncated “that its objectives are veiled”: since no-one knows what it is for and it does no harm, as is ''de rigueur'' among fearful [[legal eagles]], what one doesn’t understand one is best to leave well alone. Hence its improbable survival, a male nipple for the legal set. |