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 So if you hire an assassin to kill your spouse and the assassin takes your money but fails to, don’t expect [[Queen’s Bench Division|her majesty’s courts]] to grant you [[damages]], much less the [[Courts of chancery|courts of equity]] to award [[specific performance]].
-Straightforward enough. But, still hypotheticals fester, at least in the minds of [[Mediocre lawyer|assiduous draftspeople]] the world over. What if only a ''teeny'' little bit of it is [[Illegality|illegal]]? Can I still get on with the rest of it? And if, otherwise, not, will it help if I say in my contract that any bit which later becomes illegal — or even turns out to have been illegal the whole time — doesn’t somehow count any more, so I can carry on with the rest of it?
+Straightforward enough. But still, hypotheticals fester, at least in the minds of [[Mediocre lawyer|assiduous draftspeople]] the world over. What if only a ''teeny'' little bit of it is [[Illegality|illegal]]? Can I still get on with the rest of it? And if, otherwise, not, will it help if I say in my contract that any bit which later becomes illegal — or even turns out to have been illegal the whole time — doesn’t somehow count any more, so I can carry on with the rest of it?
 ===On crystal balls and unexpected inequities===