May, but shall not be obliged to
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Redundancy. Celery. The bleeding obvious.
Timid drafting for members of the legal profession whose mastery of the language in which they ply their craft is so compromised as to struggle with the difference between may and must.
Don’t be that person.
“May” confers an option, not an obligation.
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