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A topic that can give a [[common law]]yer hives | {{g}}A topic that can give a [[common law]]yer hives and an under-confident [[credit officer]] an entire psychiatric episode. | ||
Our legal friends are liable to spout much paranoid nonsense about [[waiver]]s — some of it will trampling upon the very founding principles of the law they learned at their first-year {{tag|contract}} law tutor’s breast — if the proposition is advanced that “we have a right, but we didn’t use it, and now we might have lost it”. | |||
Your contractual rights are a | Lost it? Forever? Can a contractual right, unexercised, really just ''evaporate'' from the page while counsel wring their hands, like so much dew in the morning sun, or that alcoholic gel you find in the public conveniences of officious yet parsimonious organisations? | ||
Your contractual rights are a not quite that ephemeral. You don’t lose them just because you don’t exercise them. | |||
There are two kinds of [[waiver]]: [[waiver by election]] and [[waiver by estoppel]]. | There are two kinds of [[waiver]]: [[waiver by election]] and [[waiver by estoppel]]. | ||
{{waiver}} | {{waiver}} |