Eg: "shall give three (3) business days' notice"
What the effing feck is the cardinal/ordinal doubling up supposed to achieve? What if they are inconsistent? Just get the number right FFS.
Oh yeah, hi everyone. I've been away for a while. Been busy having children.
Did I miss anything?
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Are you new?
Congratulations on children..
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No. I used to be Briefs. Before that I was Alain sir la Piste, before that Alan on Post, before that Pantaloons, and before that I was Briefs. I spent some time as Beany Fart as well. I think I've been posting on and off since about 2007.
I had to sign up again recently for some reason.
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I have never been included on a list though, so I'm not a particularly important roffer by any stretch of the imagination.
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Hey m9!
I will be dining in your boardroom shortly.
(No, that is not a euphemism).
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It prevents the shambles in the Prudential case where a secretary left
off the 'm' from a $90m filing of a ship mortgage
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Rufus
Which one? And how do you know where I work? Maybe I told you in a PM .
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Use of ‘hereby’.
If something is stated to be authorised or approved then the word ‘hereby’ adds nothing.
No purported authorisation ever failed because the word ‘hereby’ was not associated with it.
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A personal favourite was the shift of the European Union to stop calling directives 91/2308, 2001/97 and 2015/849 the money-laundering directives, to calling them the anti-money-laundering directive.
For the avoidance of any possible doubt, presumably.
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I was about to say 101 but it seems I'm well behind the times.
Dunno. Think you dropped a very clear hint. But I could be completely confused.
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What grant said about hereby. Definitely overused but where something must be done by a document with particular formalities associated with it (deed, stat dec. etc) I prefer to use it to make clear the thing is being done by the relevant document not recording that it has happened outside it.
I hate the interchangeable use of shall, must and will in documents. Pick one and stick to it ffs.
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Yes, Rufus. That is behind the times by a few years.
Well the catering is first class so you could do worse.
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I shall look forward to it. And let's hope they have a decent cellar.
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I can't stand people who don't fully justify docs.
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People who use their own house style for things like defined terms, types of quotation marks, etc rather than adopting the style already in the document.
Great, now we have two inconsistent approaches. Thanks.
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And who dont use automatic cross referencing.
Where did that incorrect clause reference come from a few turns down the line? Oh yes, it's because you typed it in. Moron.
Probably straying a bit far from "drafting" bugbears now.
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"in the event that " is offensive.
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When used for "if".
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