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{{a|plainenglish|[[File:Fuselage.png|450px|thumb|center|A legal eagle back from a routine training contract, yesterday]]}}Legal drafting designed to disarm playground-standard rhetorical techniques. | {{a|plainenglish|[[File:Fuselage.png|450px|thumb|center|A legal eagle back from a routine training contract, yesterday]]}}Legal drafting designed to disarm playground-standard rhetorical techniques. | ||
For if you fear your counterparty may try to make the point that, while it indeed received the [[fruits of the contract|fruits of the agreement]] it made with you, and therefore got what it wanted, it didn’t receive them ''directly from you'' — that by carrying out your promise, at your own cost, through the offices of an [[agent]], [[employee]] or other [[fiduciary]] [[representative]] of your mortal coil — by ''procuring'' performance and not performing — you have somehow ''wronged'' your counterparty,<ref>The exception that proves the rule is the personal appearance of a celebrity</ref> then your main concern should not be imprecision in your [[Mediocre lawyer|counsel]]’s drafting, but why on earth you’re entering legal relations with such a goose in the first place. | For if you fear your counterparty may try to make the point that, while it indeed received the [[fruits of the contract|fruits of the agreement]] it made with you, and therefore got what it wanted, it didn’t receive them ''directly from you'' — that by carrying out your promise, at your own cost, through the offices of an [[agent]], [[employee]] or other [[fiduciary]] [[representative]] of your mortal coil — by merely ''procuring'' performance and not performing in person — you have somehow ''wronged'' your counterparty,<ref>The exception that proves the rule is the personal appearance of a celebrity, which one cannot, as a matter of logic, do through an [[agent]] anyway.</ref> then your main concern should not be imprecision in your [[Mediocre lawyer|counsel]]’s drafting, but why on earth you’re entering legal relations with such a goose in the first place. | ||
It is a principle of [[equity]], of business, of ''common flipping sense'' that one should ''[[nolli mentula esse]]''. | It is a principle of [[equity]], of business, of ''common flipping sense'' that one should ''[[nolli mentula esse]]''. | ||
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