Unless otherwise agreed

A counterfactual that should, but all too often does not, go without saying.

Such profligacy in the chambers of parsimonious advocacy must come as a surprise — seeing as the founding principle of a contract is whomsoever the law has joined together in contract can, by the same mechanism, vary it, so such a statement can do no more than state the weft and warp of commerce — but all too often it flows from the biro of one who, by her very qualification, is deemed to know better.