Question

In the space below, rewrite the following statement. Your goal is to eliminate all unnecessary words:

At the time when the parties entered into the agreement of purchase and sale it is important to note that neither of them had knowledge of contents of the dresser drawer. Because of the fact that previous to the contract the seller did not own the dresser and the seller’s mother had not had many valuable pieces of jewelry despite having a large income, the seller had made the assumption that the dresser did not contain anything. Due to the fact that the seller had made a statement to the buyer of the fact that his mother did not own any jewelry in the buyer’s thinking, he had no purpose to make any further investigation or inspection of the drawers as he might otherwise have considered making. For these reasons, there was no provision in the contract for an upward modification in the payment to be made by the buyer to the seller in the event that the dresser drawer later proved to be filled with jewels.

Answer 1

The parties entered into an agreement of purchase and sale without knowledge of the contents of the dresser drawer. The seller did not own the dresser, and the seller's mother did not have valuable jewelry, so the seller assumed the dresser was empty. The buyer did not investigate the drawers because the seller stated the dresser contained no jewelry. Therefore, the contract did not include an upward modification of payment in case the dresser drawer contained jewels.