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  <nowiki>{{subject|Each party}} {{commitment|will}} {{action|make each payment or delivery specified in each Confirmation to be made by it}}, {{condition|subject to the other provisions of this Agreement.}}</nowiki>
  {subject|Each party} {commitment|will} {action|make each payment or delivery specified in each Confirmation to be made by it}, {condition|subject to the other provisions of this Agreement.}


Or  
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  {subject|all} {commitment|must {qualifier|absolute} } {action|pay {conjunction|or} deliver} {object|obligations in Confirm} {condition|subject to {target|Agreement} }  
  {subject|all} {commitment|must {qualifier|absolute} } {action|pay {conjunction|or} deliver} {object|obligations in Confirm} {condition|subject to {target|Agreement} }  


The point being that “agrees to”, “will”, “shall”, “must”, “is obliged to”, “shall be obligated to”, “shall unconditionally be obligated to” and so on all code back to “<nowiki>{{commitment|must}}</nowiki>”. The commitment tag has a limited number of operators: say, “must”, “must not”, “may” and has a potential qualifier (the default would be absolute)
The point being that “agrees to”, “will”, “shall”, “must”, “is obliged to”, “shall be obligated to”, “shall unconditionally be obligated to” and so on all code back to “{commitment|must}”. The commitment tag has a limited number of operators: say, “must”, “must not”, “may” and has a potential qualifier (the default would be “absolute”; alternatives “reasonably”, “best efforts”) and so on.


Ideally a lawyer would  be able to code from principles.
Ideally a lawyer would  be able to code from principles.
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So the question is, is this possible? Is this Bertrand Russell folly? Esperanto?
So the question is, is this possible? Is this Bertrand Russell folly? Esperanto?
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