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Contract interpretation: the impact of readability

Raufdeen Rameezdeen Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri LankaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Chamil Rajapakse Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Pages 729-737 | Received 14 Jun 2006, Accepted 31 Oct 2006, Published online: 24 Jul 2007

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