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===[[Brexit means Brexit]]===
===[[Brexit means Brexit]]===
This is typical of the sum total of the positive statement of the law you find in a legal opinion:
This is typical of the sum total of the positive statement of the law you find in a legal opinion:
{{Box|(''subject to the qualifications, assumptions and caveats set on pages 4-85,'') This agreement is valid, binding and enforceable<ref>''Subject, {{f|for the avoidance of doubt}}, to the qualifications, assumptions and caveats set on pages 4-85</ref> in accordance with its terms.}}
{{Box|''({{f|Subject always}} to the qualifications, assumptions and caveats set on pages 4-85,)'' This agreement is valid, binding and enforceable<ref>''Subject, {{f|for the avoidance of doubt}}, to the qualifications, assumptions and caveats set on pages 4-85</ref> in accordance with its terms.}}
 
Which is a lawyer’s way of saying [[Brexit means Brexit]]. Should the agreement your solicitor has prepared for you make no sense whatsoever — if it is plainly impossible for an ordinary Englishman to divine the merchants’ commercial consensus no matter how carefully he examines the text — then your opinion does no more than verify that sorry state of affairs.

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