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:“''A man cannot be said voluntarily to be undertaking a responsibility if at the very moment when he is said to be accepting it he declares that in fact he is not''. The problem of reconciling words of exemption with the existence of a duty arises only when a party is claiming exemption from a responsibility which he has already undertaken or which he is contracting to undertake.” | :“''A man cannot be said voluntarily to be undertaking a responsibility if at the very moment when he is said to be accepting it he declares that in fact he is not''. The problem of reconciling words of exemption with the existence of a duty arises only when a party is claiming exemption from a responsibility which he has already undertaken or which he is contracting to undertake.” | ||
Similar ground recently gone over in the context of a [[disclaimer]] by the Irish Supreme Court in {{casenote|Walsh|Jones Lang Lasalle}}. | |||
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*[[Negligent misstatement]] | *[[Negligent misstatement]] | ||