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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.

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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.

Creating Vertical Subdivisions for Fun and Profit

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.

Toward a context-specific Chevron deference

And finally, the drafter can try to steer examination of the application to an art unit that is less inclined raise Section 101 or 112 rejections, by careful wording of the title and claims.

How to draft patent claims in the U.S. to maximizing their potential to be exploited

drafter reflected the intuition behind this addition: "A dictionary

Inside agency statutory interpretation

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).

Directionality in translation: investigating prototypical patterns in editing procedures

The drafter of the partnership agreement prefers to draft targeted allocations in partnership agreements because it reduces malpractice risk.

Targeted partnership allocations

* Consistent with the report of the Law Reform Commission of Victoria, the drafter used a generic term ('place') rather than a string of terms.

When 'plain language' legislation is ambiguous - sources of doubt and lessons for the plain language movement

They provide evidence of what drafters mean when they employ certain language.

Interpreting by the book: legislative drafting manuals and statutory interpretation

The drafters will present the draft charter to the ASEAN foreign ministers during their annual meeting in Manila on Monday.

Drafting of ASEAN Charter bogs down due to human rights issue

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.

Kenya's medicine is in BBI, not Punguza Mizigo

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.

Designing their future

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'.