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{{rightbox|'''Boilerplate Anatomy'''<br>{{image|Boilerplate|jpg|An [[entire agreement]] clause yesterday}}{{Anatnavigation-boilerplate}}}}{{quote|
}}A work-creation scheme for our learned friends.
Since brevity is the soul of wit, <br>
And boilerplate the crutch of wretched [[tedium]] <br>
I will be brief, where Triago, in all his trite facility, cannot. <br>
:—{{buchstein}}, {{dsh}}}}{{d|Boilerplate|/ˈbɔɪləpleɪt/|n|}}
 
A work-creation scheme for our learned friends.
 
{{boilerplate capsule}}


===Boilerplate and the cocktail napkin===
===Boilerplate and the cocktail napkin===
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You may call this a jaundiced view, but really, if boilerplate is designed only to reinforce the settled position of the common law, what really does it do other than adding heft?  
You may call this a jaundiced view, but really, if boilerplate is designed only to reinforce the settled position of the common law, what really does it do other than adding heft?  


==Boilerplate Anatomy==
===Business at the front===
*[[Recital]]s and [[preamble]]
*[[Interpretation]] and [[construction]]
*[[Definitions]]
*[[Scope]]
===Party at the back===
*[[Representations and warranties]] and [[covenants]]
*[[Notices]] and [[communications]]
*[[Governing law]] and [[jurisdiction]]
*[[Miscellaneous]]
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*[[OneNDA]] — kind of like the little Hobbits’ journey to mount doom
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