Entire agreement clause: Difference between revisions

[[Eagles of the law]] will say it reduces a certain amount of uncertainty, certainly, but at what cost? Legal expense, for one thing: a clause we imagine was meant to close the door on [[litigation]] has, all the same, managed to generate quite a lot of the stuff.

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]].