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{{t|Profound ontological uncertainty}} writ large.  If ''one'' aspect of my {{t|contract}} is illegal, what does that mean for the rest of it? This is really a way of looking at the question of [[illegality]], the general proposition for which is that a {{t|contract}} which obliged its participants to do llegal things is void and unenforceable as a matter of pubic policy.

So if you hire an assassin to kill your wife and the assassin fails to, don’t expect her majesty’s courts to grant you damages, much less the [[Courts of chancery|courts of equity]] to award [[specific performance]].

Straightforward enough. But, still hypotheticals fester, at least in the minds of [[Mediocre lawyer|assiduous draftspeople]] the world over, but not one which often troubles the judiciary. What if only a ''teeny'' little bit of it is illegal?