Where an option agreement requires delivery of a notice to a party's 'address for the receiving of Notices' and that address is found in a clause expressly stated to be 'subject to' a provision permitting service on a party's lawyer, service on the lawyer constitutes valid service. The specific-over-general principle (generalia specialibus non derogant) does not apply where the specific clause must refer back to the general clause to find the relevant address, and the general clause is qualified by a further provision.
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