Blue pencil doctrine (test)

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....or void and certain parts of it may be entirely lawful in themselves. The question therefore arises whether the illegal or void parts may be separated or "severed'' from the contract and the rest of the contract enforced without them. Nearly all the cases arise in the context of restraint of trade, but the following principles are applicable to contracts in general" In P. Ramanatha Aiyar's Advanc....

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....io App2d 16:230 NE2d 552, 556. Blue pencil rule/test. - Legal theory that permits a judge to limit unreasonable aspects of a covenant not to compete. Severance of contract. - "severance can be effected when the part severed can be removed by running a blue pencil through it without affording the remaining part. Attwood v. Lamont, (1920) 3 K 571 (Banking) A rule in contracts a Court may strike pa....