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A special kind of throat-clearing paddery, any preamble prefaced by “subject to”,

“Subject always to” leaves open the door that other, less fulsomely expressed contingencies might be a bit spotty. Does a mere “subject to” mean things are only “subject sometimes to” — and if so how should one infer when, and when not?