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[[File:Criswell.jpg|thumb|Dear old [[Criswell]]]] | |||
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===What [[representations]] are not=== | ===What [[representations]] are not=== | ||
*'''Law''': Representations are generally not made about the law or legal status — those things are called “[[legal opinion]]s” and you’ll require [[Mediocre lawyer|august counsel]] to give you one of those<ref>First spending thirty of its onionskin pages, and several thousand of your pounds sterling, clearing its throat about what it is ''not'' saying before it will (ahem) [[give you one]].</ref> and the boredom threshold of Job if you aspire to reading it.<br> | *'''Law''': Representations are generally not made about the law or legal status — those things are called “[[legal opinion]]s” and you’ll require [[Mediocre lawyer|august counsel]] to give you one of those<ref>First spending thirty of its onionskin pages, and several thousand of your pounds sterling, clearing its throat about what it is ''not'' saying before it will (ahem) [[give you one]].</ref> and the boredom threshold of Job if you aspire to reading it.<br> | ||
*'''The Future''': Representations are generally also made about things which have already happened — “known knowns”, in the Rumsfeldian argot — and not states of affaiirs expected to come about in the future. A factual assertion about a future state of affairs is better known as a [[promise]], and you will need it to be a part of your {{tag|contract}}, not a prelude to it, if you want to hold your counterparty to it in some tribunal down the line. | |||
Gosh all this talk of the [[future]] — that place where, after all, you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives — makes me think of dear old [[Criswell]]. | Gosh all this talk of the [[future]] — that place where, after all, you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives — makes me think of dear old [[Criswell]]. | ||