The Tender For Law

Volume 14

Apr 27, 2016 1:34 AM

Scott Duncan

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS <---[BEWARE of the archaic]

Attornment by guilt. I just had this cross my desk, so I thought I'd mention it here.

Seriously, some people are as bad as the free-dumbers.

"Know All Men by These Presents" - Adams on Contract Drafting

adamsdrafting.com

Sometimes you just have to laugh. Or cry. In my current guise as soon-to-be-globetrotting contract nerd, I was looking at a contract from the Philippines. The first thing I saw below the title and above the introductory clause was this: KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: �WTF!,� says I. I immediately t�