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This, of all places, in that most saintedly over-vexed of all agreements, a ''[[confidentiality agreement]]''. | This, of all places, in that most saintedly over-vexed of all agreements, a ''[[confidentiality agreement]]''. | ||
This, readers, is [[legal eagle]]ry taken to an extraordinary, self-contradictory lengths. This is the [[legal eagle]] as [[The farmer and the sheep|''farmer'', cack-handedly counting her sheep]]. For what is the purpose of a laundry list of specifics in the first place, if not to somehow craft, contextualise or otherwise put some meaningful boundaries on a general expression which might otherwise have impossibly wide application? If you | This, readers, is [[legal eagle]]ry taken to an extraordinary, self-contradictory lengths. This is the [[legal eagle]] as [[The farmer and the sheep|''farmer'', cack-handedly counting her sheep]]. For what is the purpose of a laundry list of specifics in the first place, if not to somehow craft, contextualise or otherwise put some meaningful boundaries on a vague and indeterminate general expression which you fear might otherwise have impossibly wide application? If all you want is to capture “all information”, just ''say'' “all information”, and be done with it: don’t trouble your counterparty with both a laundry list which [[Q.E.D.]], is ''patently'' redundant ''and'' an [[ejusdem generis]] [[carve-out]], which underscores that fact. | ||