NEGOTIATIO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  NEGOTIATION, contracts The deliberation which takes place between the 
  parties touching a proposed agreement. 
       2. That which transpires in the negotiation makes no part of the 
  agreement, unless introduced into it. It is a general rule that no evidence 
  can be given to add, diminish, contradict or alter a written instrument. 1 
  Dall. 426; 4 Dall. 340; 3 S. & R. 609; 7 S. & R. 114. See Pourparler