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Modern lawyers expend more energy that they should addressing the contingency that not only their clients, but the courts in arbitrating upon their commercial agreements, will adopt this kind of logic. The subordinate clause — known in some circles as an ''[[incluso]]''<ref>Admittedly, only mine, so far as I know.</ref> — beginning with “([[including, but not limited to]]... )” speaks to this nervousness. | Modern lawyers expend more energy that they should addressing the contingency that not only their clients, but the courts in arbitrating upon their commercial agreements, will adopt this kind of logic. The subordinate clause — known in some circles as an ''[[incluso]]''<ref>Admittedly, only mine, so far as I know.</ref> — beginning with “([[including, but not limited to]]... )” speaks to this nervousness. | ||
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It is parenthetical of finest {{tag|flannel}}ette. As a matter of classical logic, it is ''incapable'' of adding anything other than ([[without limitation]]) heft, weight, drama, torpor, lassitude [[and/or]] irritation ([[as the case may be]]) to your draft. | It is parenthetical of finest {{tag|flannel}}ette. As a matter of classical logic, it is ''incapable'' of adding anything other than ([[without limitation]]) heft, weight, drama, torpor, lassitude [[and/or]] irritation ([[as the case may be]]) to your draft. | ||
Since the parenthetical can be stretched as far as your little imaginary legs can carry you, you can add as much heft as you like, with no fear of upsetting anything or anyone | Since the parenthetical can be stretched as far as your little imaginary legs can carry you, you can add as much heft as you like, with no fear of upsetting anything or anyone but a [[prose stylist]] — and as we all know, there are few indeed of those amongst the cohort of [[legal eagle]]s with whom one is forced to ply one’s trade. | ||
{{Without limitation and ejusdem generis}} | {{Without limitation and ejusdem generis}} | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Without limitation]], [[without limiting the generality of the foregoing]], [[for the avoidance of doubt]] and all the other examples of [[ontological weakness]]. | |||
*[[Qix]] | *[[Qix]] | ||
*{{t|Ontological weakness}} | *{{t|Ontological weakness}} | ||
*[[I never said it was]] | *[[I never said it was]] | ||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||