ABSTRACT

Mathews, J.A. Good sense is highly desirable in writing specifications and is even more necessary in interpreting them. If they only contained the minimum number of requirements to define the character of material wanted . . . the matter would be greatly simplified. Rarely do they cover the only material suited to the purpose intended, and more rarely do they cover the best material for the purpose intended. Once written, they become as the laws of the Medes and Persians, which alter not. They acquire a sort of sanctity, like the Ten Commandments or the Constitution before the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment.