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[[File:Carve-out.png|450px|thumb|center|a [[carve-out]] in a stable orbit with a [[carve-in]], yesterday.]] | [[File:Carve-out.png|450px|thumb|center|a [[carve-out]] in a stable orbit with a [[carve-in]], yesterday.]] | ||
}}The exception which, in the eyes of a [[legal eagle|diligent clerk]], proves the rule. No rule, no legal proposition, is too complicated that it can’t be made more so by the skilled deployment of a [[carve-out]]. | }}The exception which, in the eyes of a [[legal eagle|diligent clerk]], proves the rule. No rule, no legal proposition, is too complicated that it can’t be made more so by the skilled deployment of a [[carve-out]]. This is an invocation of the [[Fish Principle]]. | ||
Carve-outs may go without saying — they usually do — and many can be regarded as a species of redundancy: of a piece with a “[[without limitation]]” or an “[[for the avoidance of doubt|avoidance of doubt]]”. Yet how playful it can be, when the [[carve-out]] is ''from'' a “[[without limitation]]” or an “[[for the avoidance of doubt|avoidance of doubt]]”! Some are woven from a stouter fibre, whose implied articulation no drafting, however doubtless, could presume. | Carve-outs may go without saying — they usually do — and many can be regarded as a species of redundancy: of a piece with a “[[without limitation]]” or an “[[for the avoidance of doubt|avoidance of doubt]]”. Yet how playful it can be, when the [[carve-out]] is ''from'' a “[[without limitation]]” or an “[[for the avoidance of doubt|avoidance of doubt]]”! Some are woven from a stouter fibre, whose implied articulation no drafting, however doubtless, could presume. | ||
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*[[Carve-in]] | *[[Carve-in]] | ||
*The [[Fish Principle]] | |||
*[[Negligence, fraud or wilful default]] | *[[Negligence, fraud or wilful default]] | ||
*[[Gross negligence]] | *[[Gross negligence]] | ||