Preliminary Residential Agreement
PRA-1
A developing California purchase agreement designed from the transaction logic outward: rule, choice, language, branch, and authority.
Working draft • October 2026From professional reasoning to contract language
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Rule
The professional conclusion the agreement needs to implement.
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Choice
The decision the parties are being asked to make.
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Language
The operative words that allocate duty, timing, and consequence.
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Branch
What happens when the facts or the parties' choices differ.
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Authority
The source that gives the rule its weight—and the limits of that source.
Linked knowledge
The agreement and the Rulebook stay in conversation.
A Rulebook article can point to the exact PRA-1 section that implements it. A PRA-1 clause can point back to the reasoning, branches, and authority that explain why it exists.
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