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To what end the forensic remark “All references to the singular [[shall]] include the [[plural]], and vice versa”? | To what end the forensic remark “All references to the singular [[shall]] include the [[plural]], and vice versa”? | ||
To your correspondent, none. It is | To your correspondent, none. It is a whoreson zed; an unnecessary letter. This is throat-clearing text which, once in, benefits from the loving embrace of the [[anal paradox]], but serves no purpose beyond the [[Mediocre lawyer|mediocre attorney’s]] noble pursuit of prolixity. No lawyer will ever object to it, but — and ''because'' — it plays no role in unravelling the practical meaning of the legal {{t|contract}}, bar the obvious ones, where a singular does ''not'' include the plural — where a fellow is acquiring a solitary sausage from a nasty café, for very good example — and it would be a nonsense. | ||
Can you imagine standing up in court and learnedly submitting that a [[plural]] did not include the [[singular]]? Good news: just such an exchange features in the pages of the {{jclr}}! Let us turn to our go-to thought experiment: a testy exchange between {{jerrold}} and {{cocklecarrot}}, knee-deep, as they usually are, in bitter [[litigation]]. | Can you imagine standing up in court and learnedly submitting that a [[plural]] did not include the [[singular]]? Good news: just such an exchange features in the pages of the {{jclr}}! Let us turn to our go-to thought experiment: a testy exchange between {{jerrold}} and {{cocklecarrot}}, knee-deep, as they usually are, in bitter [[litigation]]. | ||
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:'''{{jbm}}''': If it pleases M’Lud. | :'''{{jbm}}''': If it pleases M’Lud. | ||
''The Court adjourns. {{Jbm}} wipes his brow with a kerchief, and paramedics take Master Contrario away.'' | ''The Court adjourns. {{Jbm}} wipes his brow with a kerchief, and paramedics take Master Contrario away.'' | ||
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*[[Anal paradox]] | |||