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On this view, there is no statement so bleeding obvious it can be safely left unsaid.  
On this view, there is no statement so bleeding obvious it can be safely left unsaid.  


[[All or substantially all]] is a modifier that seeks to defuse that smart Alec who, for example, sells his entire business barring a single chair, to avoid breaching a covenant preventing him from disposing of  “all of the business”. This is not the behaviour of a [[good egg]] and the better question to ask yourself is why you did business with {{tag|him}} in the first place.
[[All or substantially all]] is a modifier that seeks to defuse that smart Alec who, for example, sells his entire business barring a single chair, to avoid breaching a covenant preventing him from disposing of  “all of the business”. This is not the behaviour of a [[good egg]] and the better question to ask yourself is why you did business with {{sex|him}} in the first place.


In any case your qualifier leads only to a different kind of uncertainty: what counts as “substantial”? The countless learned articles and [[client briefing note]]s on the topic ({{google2|all|substantially}}) will tell you that the benefit of this kind of drafting accrues mainly to those in the legal profession.
In any case your qualifier leads only to a different kind of uncertainty: what counts as “substantial”? The countless learned articles and [[client briefing note]]s on the topic ({{google2|all|substantially}}) will tell you that the benefit of this kind of drafting accrues mainly to [[Mediocre lawyer|those in the legal profession]].