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There is a variety of {{tag|flannel}} that speaks to a {{tag|profound ontological uncertainty}} about the world. A {{lawyer|diligent clerk}} carries this with {{sex|her}} from the earliest days of her training. | There is a variety of {{tag|flannel}} that speaks to a {{tag|profound ontological uncertainty}} about the world. A {{lawyer|diligent clerk}} carries this with {{sex|her}} from the earliest days of her training. | ||
Where most conventional education is directed at persuading the individual that she has the aptitude to navigate the trickiest passage of the commercial world, lawyers are immersed from their first lecture in the notion that the only thing keeping the sky from falling on your client’s<ref>And therefore, your own</ref> head are [[magic words]] and peculiar phrasing | Where most conventional education is directed at persuading the individual that she has the aptitude to navigate the trickiest passage of the commercial world, lawyers are immersed from their first lecture in the notion that the only thing keeping the sky from falling on your client’s<ref>And therefore, your own</ref> head are [[magic words]] and peculiar phrasing [[calculated]] to leave nothing to chance. | ||
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. | ||
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[[All or substantially all]] is a modifier [[calculated]] to snooker 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. | [[All or substantially all]] is a modifier [[calculated]] to snooker 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 | In any case, your qualifier leads only to a different kind of uncertainty: what counts as “[[substantial]]”? Discussions on the in-any-case [[tedious]] topic of {{isdaprov|Credit Event Upon Merger}} tend quickly to go this way. 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]], but even then only through their very fear and loathing of the notion. | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Substantial]] and its bedfellow [[material]] | |||
*{{isdaprov|Credit Event Upon Merger}} | *{{isdaprov|Credit Event Upon Merger}} | ||
*{{f|or any part thereof}} | *{{f|or any part thereof}} | ||
*{{f|in whole or in part}} | *{{f|in whole or in part}} | ||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||