Important Principles of Drafting, Pleadings and Conveyancing

 

INTRODUCTION:

Hello everyone, today we are going to discuss about certain principles of good drafting, pleadings and conveyancing. whenever we draft a document it is very much essential for us to draft a document in such a way that it will impact the reader in positive way, but the question is how we can do that?

This article will help you to understand and identify these principles and by applying these principles you will be able to differentiate between relevant part that you have to mention in your draft and the irrelevant part that you have to avoid. 

This article will help you to grow overall skills of drafting a document. so let us begin. 

DRAFTING: Drafting a document or a draft is a process where you mention all relevant facts which was arises form cause of action and which opens the door to approach for remedy of the court of law. 

Drafting are of two type, criminal and civil. In civil drafting there are certain documents that we have to draft such as, Plaint, Written statement, Writs, Petitions etc. 

 

 

5 RULES OF DRAFTING:

There are 5 basic rules that everyone should keep in mind while drafting these documents:

1- CONCISE: Drafting is not always about bulky lengthy and numerous documents, if you can explain all relevant facts in much more concise way it will strike a positive impact on readers mind. And it is much more easier for reader to understand it and it makes there task less lethargic.

 

2- CLARITY: You can only make your point clear to the reader if you yourself has the clarity about things that you want to convey to the reader. It is most important for you to be clear about the facts which you want to convey to the court of law. 

 

3- AVOID MISTAKES: It would be worse to commit mistake in a draft, it leads to a negative impact on readers mind, although it is a minor one and sometimes it happens that even if we are aware about it still it happens. So, be sure to read it with full awareness so that you can avoid it. 

 

4-COURTESY: While we draft a document we mostly consider to have an attacking side, to strike the opposite party with allegations and how they violated our rights but one should keep in mind, to do this we may not lead to affect the courtesy of the court. And also when we allege one this in a decent way the opposite party is much more interested in listening and understanding our part. 

 

5-LOGICAL ARRANGEMENT: The most important thing while drafting a document is to differentiate paras of document in such a way that each para shows separate individual facts in a complete manner and these paras should be arranged in such a way that as whole they complete the entire sense of what we want to convey to the reader. 

 

CONCLUSION:

As it is very important for advocates, lawyers, attorneys to draft documents in day to day life, this article would be helpful for them to have a better approach toward drafting, pleading and conveyancing. Even students who are pursuing law found it much more easier to understand these basic 5 Rules of Drafting. Once, you apply these principles it will enhance your ability to draft a document in much more articulative manner.