Template:M intro boilerplate entire agreement

A boilerplate clause designed to buttress the time-honoured parol evidence rule, that if it is clear you meant to entirely reduce your agreement to writing, once you have done so the “four corners” of the written agreement, and no other extraneous evidence, will be the tribunal’s only guide to divining its intention.

Eagles of the law will say it reduces a certain amount of uncertainty, certainly, but at what cost? Legal expense, for one thing: a clause we imagine was meant to close the door on litigation has, all the same, managed to generate quite a lot of the stuff.