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{{ | {{a|boilerplate|[[File:World hands.jpg|450px|center]]}}A [[boilerplate]] clause designed to buttress the time-honoured [[parol evidence]] rule, that if it is clear you meant to entirely reduce your agreement to writing, once you have done so the “four corners” of the written agreement, and no other extraneous evidence, will be the tribunal’s only guide to divining its intention. | ||
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}}A [[boilerplate]] clause designed to buttress the time-honoured [[parol evidence]] rule, that if it is clear you meant to entirely reduce your agreement to writing, once you have done so the “four corners” of the written agreement, and no other extraneous evidence, will be the tribunal’s only guide to divining its intention. | |||
[[Eagles of the law]] will say it reduces a certain amount of [[uncertainty]], certainly, but at what cost? Legal ''expense'', for one thing: a clause we imagine was meant to close the door on [[litigation]] has, all the same, managed to generate quite a lot of the stuff. | [[Eagles of the law]] will say it reduces a certain amount of [[uncertainty]], certainly, but at what cost? Legal ''expense'', for one thing: a clause we imagine was meant to close the door on [[litigation]] has, all the same, managed to generate quite a lot of the stuff. | ||