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Muhammed.agamy Posted 19 years ago
Legal Studies

it or he) which of them we refer to the company

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00i am a lawyer , and i want to know , when i refer to the company , the dealer or distributer in a contract 02br
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0Hi,02br
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00As a non- layer, I'd say that you should refer to a person as 'he' (or 'she') and to a legal entity that is not a person, eg a company, as 'it'.02br
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00I'm going to transfer your query to our legal forum, where you may get other replies.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0 I do not think any lawyer would refer to a client as "it" in a letter. There is the problem of whether to refer to a company as "our client" or "our clients". Using "our client" is fine until you need to use a pronoun. If you say "they" this does not sit very well with the singular, so you find yourself going back and changing it to "our clients", which is not strictly correct since you only h
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0Hi,02br
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00I have seen the using of 'it' as a common use, in fact every book about company law can't do better than using it. For example: ... has the charakter of a legal person, distinct from its officers and shareholders. Therefore it has to be: it:-)0-
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0 In our contracts, in the first paragraph the following was established:02br
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00COMPANY A (hereafter The Licensor}02br
00COMPANY B (hereafter The Licensee)02br
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00In all places within the contract where either A or B was cited, "The Licensor" or "The Licensee" was used. If the second is not a company, the same still applied = NAME (her
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0Hi,02br
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00this is a very intelligent solution to the problem mentioned above. Thank you. I was trying to give an appropriate answer from a grammatical standpoint:-) But of course many ways lead somewhere.0-

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