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===[[Side letter]]s, [[amendment agreement]]s===
===[[Side letter]]s, [[amendment agreement]]s===
Some lesser spotted [[legal eagle]]s, apparently struggling with the basic essence of the idea, have even inserted [[entire agreement]] clauses into arrangements which are patently nothing of the sort — [[amendment agreement]]s and [[side letter]]s, for example — and these, by following ineluctable gravity down a path in whose adjoining [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|ditches]] and upon whose surrounding hills lie the remains of no men or women who were prepared [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|to die in or on them]]', they have ossified into standard [[boilerplate]].  
Some lesser spotted [[legal eagle]]s, apparently struggling with the basic essence of the idea, have even inserted [[entire agreement]] clauses into arrangements which are patently nothing of the sort — [[amendment agreement]]s and [[side letter]]s, for example — and these, by following ineluctable gravity down a path in whose adjoining [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|ditches]] and upon whose surrounding hills lie the remains of no men or women who were prepared [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|to die in or on them]], they have ossified into standard [[boilerplate]].
 
Another common yet curious habitat for an [[entire agreement]] clause is a [[master trading agreement]]. How exactly a framework agreement that is meant to be amplified by subsequent agreement, and indeed has no economic impact if it is not, can be “the entire agreement and understanding of the Parties with respect to its subject matter” is beyond the little brain of this bear, but yet {{icds}} and {{icmacds}}, among others, both heartily say it.  


===Are you feeling lucky?===
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