Contract stipulation practice allows citizens to red-line offensive terms into agreements

Evidence

But she had an idea. Stipulations! She had learned in one of her legal books that if you are confronted with disagreeable provisions in a contract, you should just cross them out and add acceptable language. Yasmin carefully filled out her application of intent to run for office. When she made it down to the new, offending section, she crossed it all out and wrote a letter on another page she marked as CONFIDENTIAL. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 386

Categorization

• DEFINE: Briefly defines the stipulation technique — crossing out disagreeable provisions and adding acceptable language — as a standard contract-law move that a layperson learned from a book.
• CANDY: The image of a teenage Muslim girl crossing out a school form clause and writing a CONFIDENTIAL legal letter is endearing and tweetable.