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A home-made {{tag|Latin}} motto that speaks to the profound existential fear of all [[mediocre lawyer|cautious solicitors]]. Something is only safe - only free from the black terror of the unknown that has a lair in the darkest reaches of every attorney’s heart - once it is written down. | A home-made {{tag|Latin}} motto that speaks to the profound existential fear of all [[mediocre lawyer|cautious solicitors]]. Something is only safe - only free from the black terror of the unknown that has a lair in the darkest reaches of every attorney’s heart - once it is written down. | ||
The worst of it is that it isn’t even true: even if you write it down, the Leviathan still waits, and growls, and wants to eviscerate you, my young [[Chicken Licken|chicken]]. | The worst of it is that it isn’t even necessarily true: even if you write it down, the Leviathan still waits, and growls, and wants to eviscerate you, my young [[Chicken Licken|chicken]]. You may park some of those fears with an [[entire agreement]] clause, and [[no oral modification]], but still a [[contract]] and its [[Written contract|written articulation]] are not the same thing. | ||
The [[Written contract|written articulation of a legal agreement]] — the paper it is written on, in other words — is no more than evidence of that agreement: it isn’t “the agreement” itself. A [[Contract|legal agreement]] is a [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] thing; a Platonic form: it might be we can only ever see its shadow, thrown across a craggy cave wall: but we shouldn't confuse that contorted, shifting shape with the intellectual construct — effable — but unchained from the mortal, papery coil that represents it in this world. | The [[Written contract|written articulation of a legal agreement]] — the paper it is written on, in other words — is no more than evidence of that agreement: it isn’t “the agreement” itself. A [[Contract|legal agreement]] is a [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] thing; a Platonic form: it might be we can only ever see its shadow, thrown across a craggy cave wall: but we shouldn't confuse that contorted, shifting shape with the intellectual construct — effable — but unchained from the mortal, papery coil that represents it in this world. | ||