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White Collar Crime: A Legal Overview, Paul Marcus
White Collar Crime: A Legal Overview, Paul Marcus
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The Merchant Of Section 2-314: Who Needs Him?, Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger
The Merchant Of Section 2-314: Who Needs Him?, Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger
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The Efficacy Of Guaranty Contracts In Sophisticated Commercial Transactions, Peter A. Alces
The Efficacy Of Guaranty Contracts In Sophisticated Commercial Transactions, Peter A. Alces
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Even though contracts of guaranty are not subject to uniform standards of interpretation throughout the states, both case law and statutory development have tended to evidence a strong sympathy for the guarantor. In spite of this trend, Professor Alces suggests that creditors' counsel can, through careful drafting, do much to assure the enforceability of the guaranty contract. A scrupulously structured guaranty contract, one that anticipates possible defenses to liability in explicit terms, may well be upheld, even in cases in which guarantors occupied weak negotiating positions vis-a-vis creditors. Moreover, the attack on the guaranty as a fraudulent conveyance under section …