Contra Proferentem: The allure of ambiguous boilerplate

Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 176-186

  Boardman, Michelle E ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 83655176094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511611179.017     Document Type: Chapter

References (11)

1. E. Allan Farnsworth, Contracts §7.11, at 474 (3d ed. 1999).
2. Charles J. Goetz & Robert E. Scott, The Limits of Expanded Choice: An Analysis of the InteractionsBetween Express and ImpliedContractTerms, 73Cal. L. Rev. 261, 301 (1985).
3. John L. Romaker & Virgil B. Prieto, Expectations Lost: Bank of theWest v. Superior Court Places the Fox in Charge of the Henhouse, 29 Cal. W. L. Rev. 83, 103 (1992) (citing Keeton, supra note 56, at 968).
4. Storms v. U.S. Fid. & Guar. Co., 388 A.2d 578, 579-80 (N.H. 1978) (quoting De Lancey v. Ins. Co., 52 N.H. 581, 588 (1873)) (emphasis added) (citations omitted).
5. Penn Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Oglesby, 695 A.2d 1146, 1150 (Del. 1997).
6. Penn Mut. Life, 695 A.2d at 1150.
7. New Castle County, Del. v. Nat’l. Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., 243 F.3d 744, 747 (3d Cir. 2001) emphasis added.
8. Id. at 756-57 n.1 (Scirica, J., dissenting) (quoting insurance policy).
9. Little v. MGIC Indem. Corp., 836 F.2d 789, 796 (3d Cir. 1987) (quoting Cohen v. Erie Indem. Co., 432 A.2d 596, 599 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1981)) (emphasis added).
10. E.g., Beretta, U.S.A., Corp. v. Fed. Ins. Co., 117 F. Supp. 2d 489, 495 (D. Md. 2000).
11. New Castle County, Del. v. Nat’l. Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, 243 F.3d 744, 755 (3d Cir. 2001).