A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses, 5th Edition

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A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses, 5th Edition

Edited by Mark Anderson · Victor Warner
Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing) April 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781526529503
Publisher
Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
Publication
April 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Do you need help with drafting standard contract clauses, but only have a few minutes? This book is an alphabetical, quick-access guide. It provides up-to-date, practical drafting advice on the purpose and effect of a wide range of the clauses in common use.

The Fifth Edition covers major developments and includes new sections covering:

  • 'Good governance', eg compliance with health and safety, bribery and slavery laws
  • Revised and expanded sections dealing with:
  • Entire agreement clauses
  • Exemption clauses
  • Indemnities
  • Warranties

This book includes:

  • A step-by-step commentary
  • Examples of best practice in different situations
  • Detailed notes on each type of boilerplate clause
  • A summary of relevant law, including statutory definitions and case law
  • Precedents supplied as an accompanying electronic download

Comprehensive and organised for ease of use, this title guides the user through each clause, explaining its purpose, considering its relevance, and providing illustrative examples.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Acknowledgements
3. Affiliates, group companies and subsidiaries
4. Agency and partnership (denials of)
5. Agents for service
6. Agreeing to enter and signing an agreement (execution and signature block clauses)
7. Amendment or variation
8. Announcements
9. Appointment
10. Arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and the use of experts
11. Assignment and novation
12. Auditing, inspection and records
13. Best endeavours, reasonable endeavours and all reasonable endeavours
14. Breach
15. Capacity (and authority)
16. Charges
17. Commencement date
18. Completion
19. Conditions precedent and subsequent
20. Confidentiality
21. Consent
22. Consequences of termination (survival of terms)
23. Consultation
24. Consumer contracts
25. Contra proferentem
26. Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
27. Costs and expenses
28. Counterparts (or duplicates)
29. Covenants
30. Cumulative remedies
31. Currency
32. Data protection
33. Date of agreement
34. Deeds
35. Definitions
36. Deposits and part payments
37. Disclaimers
38. Entire and final agreement and acknowledgement of non-reliance
39. Exclusive, non-exclusive and sole
40. Exemption clauses
41. Expiry and termination at will
42. Force majeure
43. Freedom on information
44. Further assurance
45. Good faith
46. Indemnities
47. Indexation (inflation)
48. Insolvency (termination for)
49. Insurance
50. Intellectual property
51. Interest
52. Interpretation
53. Joint and several liability
54. Language
55. Law and jurisdiction
56. Months and other expressions of time
57. Net sales value (or net invoice price)
58. Notices
59. Option and right of first refusal
60. Parties
61. Payment terms
62. Priority of terms
63. Receipts
64. Recitals
65. Reporting
66. Representations
67. Retention of title
68. Schedules
69. Set-off and retention
70. Severance and invalidity
71. Stamp duty (and Stamp Duty Land Tax)
72. Sub-contracting
73. Subject to contract (and other denials of a legally-binding contract)
74. Successors and assigns
75. Termination for breach
76. Territory
77. Time of the essence
78. Title (or property) and risk
79. Undertakings
80. Value Added Tax
81. Waivers and releases
82. Warranties

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