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===Are you feeling lucky?===
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But even where it is not by its own lights a self-contradiction, an [[entire agreement]] clause supposes that [[learned counsel]] have understood every commercial nuance and forensic contingency, even if their clients have not. Fat chance. It also presumes that, having done so, they will have successfully memorialised those terms in prose that speaks with utmost clarity and comprehensivity, to the [[bargain|commercial bargain]]. The [[JC]] knows a lot of lawyers and would urge caution against this assumption.  
But even where it is not by its own lights a self-contradiction, an [[entire agreement]] clause supposes that [[learned counsel]] have understood every commercial nuance and forensic contingency, even if their clients have not. Fat chance. It also presumes that, having done so, they will have successfully memorialised those terms in prose that speaks with utmost clarity and comprehensivity, to the [[bargain|commercial bargain]]. The [[JC]] knows a lot of lawyers and would urge caution against this assumption.