Yes, wording can be twisted. But the other side can mount the legal argument that this was not the meaning of the original contract. From http://apps.americanba

Yes, wording can be twisted. But the other side can mount the legal argument that this was not the meaning of the original contract. From http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/trialevidence/articles/spring2014-0614-demise-meeting-of-minds-contract-law.html http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/trialevide... Strict construction might be the appropriate approach if we lived in a society where language was so formal, standardized, and known that every contracting party would use precisely the same words to describe an agreement.