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Drafter

The person who draws or frames a legal document such as a will, Pleading, conveyance, or contract. One who writes an original legislative bill for the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives is called the drafter of that bill.

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Here, the drafter is painting on a blank canvas creating a regime specifically tailored to fit the requirements of a particular project.
This comes from two, perhaps unlikely, sources: statutory and regulatory drafters. This Part presents the relevant findings from a 195-question survey I conducted of 128 agency rule drafters at seven executive departments and two independent agencies.
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There will be a predominance of Drafter profile and Non-Recursive subprofile in direct translation since participants seek to achieve a reliable task output at the end of drafting phase in their L1 (the direction in which they usually translate).
The drafter of the partnership agreement prefers to draft targeted allocations in partnership agreements because it reduces malpractice risk.
* Consistent with the report of the Law Reform Commission of Victoria, the drafter used a generic term ('place') rather than a string of terms.
They provide evidence of what drafters mean when they employ certain language.
The drafters will present the draft charter to the ASEAN foreign ministers during their annual meeting in Manila on Monday.
The drafters of the Bill may have rightly figured nearly all these provisions are and will be popular among Wanjikus but populism, by itself, is never a means to an end.
However, Waubonsee Community College students Michael Chinn of Batavia and Matthew Maltese of Aurora have found rewarding jobs as drafters at EN Engineering in Warrenville.
The civil society organisation Musavi that is responsible for preparing the manual and holding a workshop on it believes that the 'manual employs a wider conception of legislative drafting as including both considerations in conceiving and formulating laws by legislators, and the specific act of translating the same in legislative form and style by legislative drafters'.
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