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''And what is so bad about that?'' you might ask. Nothing — verily, given the likelihood these days of any legal action flowing from a civil<ref>As in, “not criminal”, and not just “polite, and having due regard to prevailing etiquette”.</ref> interaction, civil or otherwise, really, nothing — but purists might like to consider that the remedies for [[breach of representation|breach of a pre-contractual representation]] — namely, ''avoiding'' the {{t|contract}}; putting the parties back in the position they were in before this whole ghastly business started — are quite different from those for a [[breach of contract]] — where a misbehaving merchant must put his innocent counterpart in the position the latter would have been in had the contract been performed properly all along.