We Reap What We Sow – Let’s Read What We Write

PrintWe’re sure that, at one time, there were no written leases. It may have been that no one could conceive that putting the arrangement in writing would be desirable. More likely, it was that writing had not yet been invented. Jump ahead – handwritten, typed, and pre-printed leases came into being. And, then, the greatest invention of all – the word-processed form. We imagine that when you wrote out a lease by hand, you already had negotiated the “deal” and all you were doing was to write it down. Our imagination isn’t good enough to have any sense as to how that felt, but it seems that some advantages of that process have been lost. Today, we’ll only touch on one of those – the scribe (or the one dictating the text) had to know the whole deal and then, to write it out, had to hear or read the deal in its entirety. The typed lease was probably a step away because, and we are guessing, the draftsperson might mark changes on…

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