What is the legal term for the principle behind dependant documents in a legal contract?

Doesn’t make sense!

Document “C” is freestanding or should be. Unless you mean revisions of existing contract.

Where “A” was revised to “B” and “C” is a revision of “B” !

You need the entire document package to have a contract . . “A”, “B” and “C” all need to be available and connected..

@Tropical_Willie “Document “C” is freestanding or should be.”

Document C claims to be freestanding, but makes references to dates from previous documents. In document C it says something like: “see document B for date of contract” and document B says something like: “see document A for date of contract.” If document A cannot be provided, can document C try to enforce a particular date that’s not included anywhere?

Is there a legal term or keyword for chaining of documents and dependencies?

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Still doesn’t make sense!

Document “C” can’t be both connected and freestanding. I’ll bet it is non-binding and not written by a lawyer.