Legal Language, Legal Writing & General English plus Drafting Contracts: Basic Principles

Legal Language, Legal Writing & General English

B.M. Gandhi's Legal Language, Legal Writing & General English is designed as a basic text for law students. Not only does it fulfill the requirements of the legal language and writing courses but also initiates the student to the study of law and the legal profession. It is also invaluable for law school entrance examinations.

The book focuses on areas such as legal vocabulary, word formation, grammar, legal writing, drafting and communication. Necessary for legal writing, it discusses how to organise ideas, create and refine prose, and improve editing skills. Other than serving as a text for law students, the book is also invaluable as a reference work. It lists legal words and meanings, Latin phrases, synonyms and antonyms, words often confused, rules of punctuation and grammar, case comment and article writing examples, drafts of legal documents and leading cases in the Law of Tort and Contract. The book also gives lists of necessary addresses, government posts and departments, law report citations and provisions of some important Acts, quotable quotes and sample question papers.

Written for law students this book will be useful to anyone grappling with the basics of legal language or the peculiarities of the profession. It is also a valuable refresher text for more advanced students, and for practitioners.

Drafting Contracts: Basic Principles

Drafting is one of the most fundamental skills which every legal practitioner must be equipped with. Yet, there has always existed a huge gap between the theory of law and contract, taught in law schools and the actual practice of the law. Ajar Rab's work is a sincere attempt to bridge the gap between the two.

Drafting Contracts - Basic Principles is divided into 12 chapters.
Chapter 1 introduces the basics of drafting to the learner and elaborates on the skills, objectives, and stages of contract drafting.
Chapter 2, explains the drafting process from taking instructions from the client to the essentials of a well-drafted contract.
Chapter 3 deals with the effective language to be used in contract drafting, from general principles to the types of contract language.
In Chapter 4 and 5, designing the terms and defining the contours of the contract have been explained by the author.
Chapters 6 to 8, deal with operative clauses, termination, remedies and exemption clauses, and standard form contracts or boilerplate contracts.
In Chapter 9, dispute resolution clauses are covered which include the scope of the clause, choice of law, and multi-tier dispute resolution clauses.
Concluding a contract is covered in Chapter 10 and reviewing contracts is covered in Chapter 11.
The final chapter, Chapter 12 deals with checklists and covers language and drafting checklists.

This book is meant for law students, beginners, fresh graduates, and laypersons looking for guidance on the subject. Experienced litigation professionals will also benefit from this book using it as a quick refresher. This book equips readers with sound knowledge and understanding of the basics, principles, and rules of drafting and gives a competitive advantage to the students when they step outside the law school.