Curious legal question
Can font and indentation carry legal meaning in a contract? In other words, if you took a document with varying fonts and indentation - implying an outline structure with headings and subheadings - and stripped it of its formatting and white space so as to flatten this structure into a simple list, could that change the document's meaning in a court of law?
Unfortunately, this is not a theoretical question. ;-) It is especially interesting because the text makes more sense without the formatting than with it - the category and subcategory bear no relationship to each other, and it is thus nonsensical when read as an outline.
Unfortunately, this is not a theoretical question. ;-) It is especially interesting because the text makes more sense without the formatting than with it - the category and subcategory bear no relationship to each other, and it is thus nonsensical when read as an outline.