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Redundancy. [[Celery]]. The [[bleeding obvious]].  
{{a|plainenglish|}}Redundancy. [[Celery]]. The [[bleeding obvious]].  


Timid drafting for [[Mediocre lawyer|members of the legal profession]] whose mastery of the language in which they ply their craft is so compromised as to struggle with the difference between [[may]] and [[must]].
Timid drafting for [[legal eagle|members of the legal profession]] whose mastery of the language in which they ply their craft is so compromised as to struggle with the difference between [[may]] and [[must]].


Don’t be that person.
Don’t be that person.


“[[May]]” confers an ''[[option]]'', not an ''[[obligation]]''.
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*[[May]]
 
*[[Shall be entitled to]]
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Redundancy. Celery. The bleeding obvious.

Timid drafting for members of the legal profession whose mastery of the language in which they ply their craft is so compromised as to struggle with the difference between may and must.

Don’t be that person.

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