Construction and Certain Definitions. (a) In construing this Agreement, the following principles shall be followed: (i) no consideration shall be given to the captions of the articles, sections, subsections or clauses, which are inserted for convenience in locating the provisions of this Agreement and not as an aid in construction; (ii) no consideration shall be given to the fact or presumption that any Party had a greater or lesser hand in drafting this Agreement; (iii) examples shall not be construed to limit, expressly or by implication, the matter they illustrate; (iv) the word "includes" and its syntactic variants mean "includes, but is not limited to" and corresponding syntactic variant expressions; (v) the plural shall be deemed to include the singular, and vice versa; (vi) each gender shall be deemed to include the other gender; and (vii) each exhibit, attachment and schedule to this Agreement is a part of this Agreement.
Appears in 6 contracts
Samples: Parent Agreement (Lyondell Chemical Co), Parent Agreement (Equistar Funding Corp), Parent Agreement (Occidental Petroleum Corp /De/)
Construction and Certain Definitions. (a) In construing this Agreement, the following principles shall be followed: (i) no consideration shall be given to the captions of the articles, sections, subsections or clauses, which are inserted for convenience in locating the provisions of this Agreement and not as an aid in construction; (ii) no consideration shall be given to the fact or presumption that any Party party hereto had a greater or lesser hand in drafting this Agreement; (iii) examples shall not be construed to limit, expressly or by implication, the matter they illustrate; (iv) the word "includes" and its syntactic variants mean "includes, but is not limited to" and corresponding syntactic variant expressions; (v) the plural shall be deemed to include the singular, and vice versa; (vi) each gender shall be deemed to include the other gender; and (vii) each exhibit, attachment and schedule to this Agreement is a part of this Agreement.
Appears in 3 contracts
Samples: Parent Agreement (Millennium Chemicals Inc), Parent Agreement (Millennium Chemicals Inc), Parent Agreement (Lyondell Petrochemical Co)
Construction and Certain Definitions. (a) In construing this Agreement, the following principles shall be followed: (i) no consideration shall be given to the captions of the articles, sections, subsections or clauses, which are inserted for convenience in locating the provisions of this Agreement and not as an aid in construction; (ii) no consideration shall be given to the fact or presumption that any Party had a greater or lesser hand in drafting this Agreement; (iii) examples shall not be construed to limit, expressly or by implication, the matter they illustrate; (iv) the word "includes" and its syntactic variants mean "includes, but is not limited to" and corresponding syntactic variant expressions; (v) the plural shall be deemed to include the singular, and vice versa; and (vi) each gender shall be deemed to include the other gender; and (vii) each exhibit, attachment and schedule to this Agreement is a part of this Agreement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Samples: Parent Agreement (Geon Co), Parent Agreement (Geon Co)