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To your correspondent, none at all. This is throat-clearing, pointless text which, once in, benefits from the loving embrace of the [[anal paradox]], but serves no purpose beyond the attorney’s noble pursuit of prolixity. No lawyer will ever object to it, but — and ''because'' — it plays no role in unravelling the practical meaning of the legal contract, bar the obvious ones, where a singular does not include the plural, and this language would be a total nonsense. | To your correspondent, none at all. This is throat-clearing, pointless text which, once in, benefits from the loving embrace of the [[anal paradox]], but serves no purpose beyond the attorney’s noble pursuit of prolixity. No lawyer will ever object to it, but — and ''because'' — it plays no role in unravelling the practical meaning of the legal contract, bar the obvious ones, where a singular does not include the plural, and this language would be a total nonsense. | ||
Can you imagine standing up in court and learnedly submitting that a [[plural]] did not include the [[singular]]? Good news: just such an exchange features in the pages of the {{jclr}}!Let us turn to our go-to thought experiment: a testy exchange between {{jerrold}} and {{cocklecarrot}}, knee deep as they usually are in bitter [[litigation]]. | Can you imagine standing up in court and learnedly submitting that a [[plural]] did not include the [[singular]]? Good news: just such an exchange features in the pages of the {{jclr}}! Let us turn to our go-to thought experiment: a testy exchange between {{jerrold}} and {{cocklecarrot}}, knee-deep, as they usually are, in bitter [[litigation]]. | ||
{{court scene|II|iv|stares morosely at his brogues, silently cursing the wasted shoe-polish in those nasty little holes|rises briskly, causing his chair to scrape flatulently on the parquet floor. {{cocklecarrot}} raises an eyebrow, and Sir Jerrold smiles thinly}} | {{court scene|II|iv|stares morosely at his brogues, silently cursing the wasted shoe-polish in those nasty little holes|rises briskly, causing his chair to scrape flatulently on the parquet floor. {{cocklecarrot}} raises an eyebrow, and Sir Jerrold smiles thinly}} | ||