"Comma Mischief from the Florida District Court of Appeal"
Blog readers know that I'm interested in legal language, and that includes punctuation (see, e.g., "Punctuation Matters. At the Heart of This Case Is the Placement of a Comma" and "A, B or C" vs. There was an interesting Florida case on punctuation and the law a few weeks ago, and I thought I'd pass along an item about it from Ken Adams, author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (5th ed.
- ▪Blog readers know that I'm interested in legal language, and that includes punctuation (see, e.g., "Punctuation Matters.
- ▪At the Heart of This Case Is the Placement of a Comma" and "A, B or C" vs.
- ▪There was an interesting Florida case on punctuation and the law a few weeks ago, and I thought I'd pass along an item about it from Ken Adams, author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (5th ed.
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contract law "Comma Mischief from the Florida District Court of Appeal" Eugene Volokh | 8.18.2026 8:01 AM <img decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-8380350" src="https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2026/05/Koala_climbing_tree1-1024x1007.jpg" alt="" width="512" srcset="https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2026/05/Koala_climbing_tree1-1024x1007.jpg 1024w, https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2026/05/Koala_climbing_tree1-300x295.jpg 300w, https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2026/05/Koala_climbing_tree1-768x755.jpg 768w, https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2026/05/Koala_climbing_tree1.jpg 1132w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Thanks to Wikipedia for the koala photo.
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