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| These guidelines apply as much to contract drafting as to legislative drafting. They limit the use of definitions to cases of clear ambiguity or altering the common meaning of a word or phrase such that it bears a meaning specific to the contract. | These guidelines apply as much to contract drafting as to legislative drafting. They limit the use of definitions to cases of clear ambiguity or altering the common meaning of a word or phrase such that it bears a meaning specific to the contract. | ||
| - | The placement | + | Definitions are located in either a general or specific definitions section. |
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| + | * A general definitions section appears in Part I, section 1 of the contract. This section will set out any definition that applies to the entire agreement or that may affect the entire agreement. | ||
| + | * Specific definitions are appear as interpretation sections that begin parts of the contract or as sub-sections in sections. These definitions will, as their name suggests, relate only to parts or sections of the agreement. | ||
| + | * The decision to create specific definitions may be made when a limited part of the contract requires a departure from a word or phrase' | ||
| ===== Common clauses ===== | ===== Common clauses ===== | ||
