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A prevalent practice in the construction sector is to incorporate by reference other documents into the contract amongst two parties. For instance, subcontracts regularly incorporate the “Contract Documents” (which phrase is generally defined) and have a statement to the impact that the subcontractor has either reviewed the Contract Documents or had an chance to do so. Florida law recognizes the rights of contracting parties to agree to the terms and situations in documents that are only referred to in the contract. “It is a normally accepted rule of contract law that, exactly where a writing expressly refers to and sufficiently describes one more document, that other document, or so significantly of it as is referred to, is to be interpreted as portion of the writing.” OBS Company, Inc. v. Pace Construction Corp., 558 So. 2d 404 (Fla. 1990). Even so, at least one Florida appellate court “requires that there should be some expression in the incorporating document ... of an intention to be bound by the collateral document.... A mere reference to yet another document is not adequate to incorporate that other document into a contract, specifically where the incorporating document makes no distinct reference that it is ‘subject to’ the collateral document.” Kanter v. Boutin, 624 So. 2d 779 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993). The situation of “incorporation by reference” maybe most often comes up when a party to a contract attempts to force the other celebration into arbitration based upon an arbitration clause contained in a document that is only incorporated by reference. Arbitration clauses incorporated by reference are usually enforced. For instance, in Frank J. Rooney, Inc. v. Charles W. Ackerman of Florida, Inc., 219 So. 2d 110 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969), the appellate court ruled that the subcontractor could compel the common contractor to arbitration exactly where the arbitration clause of the AIA general provisions had been incorporated by reference in the general contract which, in turn was incorporated by reference into the subcontract. The courts will also only enforce provisions that are incorporated by reference if . . . nicely, if they are incorporated by reference. In the aforementioned Frank J. Rooney, Inc. case, the subcontract stated that if a dispute arose as to the amount claimed by the subcontractor for extras, the dispute would be lastly determined by the architect. The court stated, “It was not essential for the parties to agree that all disputes be decided by the very same authority. They had a ideal correct to make a distinction amongst claims that would arise under the original sub-contract . . . and to provide a various technique for claims that would arise subsequent to the execution of the sub-contract . . . .” As a result, though the subcontractor’s claims regarding the contract balance had been effectively the subject of arbitration, the claims concerning extras had been for the architect to choose. A single of the methods to doing a very good job negotiating a contract is to realize it, including the terms to be incorporated by reference. In some instances, what would be incorporated by reference might be beneficial and, therefore, ought to be accepted. In other individuals, the outdoors terms may be unreasonable and possibly damaging and, therefore, negotiating exceptions would make sense.