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[[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 {{tag|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 or substantially all}}) 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 those in the legal profession.