Constructive

An excellent legal construction addressing the state of affairs one would have been in had all been well in the world. It starts with constructive knowledge: knowledge a prudent chap ought to have had, had he stopped to think about it — a cognitive state which pays no heed to the [[brute facts of his imperfect existence, in which his Vauxhall Astra is unapologetically now wrapped around a lamp post he would have, in a perfect world, known was there and diligently avoided.

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