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[[File:Side letter.png|450px|thumb|center|[[Side letter]]: a real example found on the internet. I know, right?]] | [[File:Side letter.png|450px|thumb|center|[[Side letter]]: a real example found on the internet. I know, right?]] | ||
}}{{d|Side letter|/saɪd/ /ˈlɛtə/|n|}} <br> | }}{{d|Side letter|/saɪd/ /ˈlɛtə/|n|}} <br> | ||
Another great [[canard]] in the pantheon of | Another great [[canard]] in the pantheon of preposterous ways our learned friends go about finding ''[[consensus ad idem]]'', the side letter is an agreement that sits to the “side” of another, main agreement, and which usually operates to undermine it utterly. | ||
The theory seems to be that since a side letter is somewhat out of sight, or points in a slightly different direction, or — I don’t know, is ''smaller'', or less grandiose than the main agreement it circumvents — that people can “get themselves [[comfortable]]” pretending the side letter is not, ''formally'', there, while at the same time understanding, substantially, that it totally ''is'' there, and outrageously mocks the stated economic objective of the main razzle-dazzle agreement that everyone feels comfortable pretending ''is'' there when, by the ministrations of the side letter, it is not. | |||
There is some kind of existential paradox here. You know how the JC loves a paradox. In the sense that they are cosmetic artefacts, designed to give one appearance while delivering a different reality, the [[JC]] denounces side letters as stupid, unbecoming things, with which no sensible [[legal eagle]] should ever have truck. But being a pragmatic fellow he also recognises there will be times where a [[legal eagle]]’s [[ditch tolerance]] is not so great that she will go to the wall to avoid having such truck. Look, no-one’s ''proud'' of a side letter — you don’t put an unusual facility with side letters on your CV, or write learned tomes about them, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do, you know? Life’s complicated. | |||
===Sensible uses for side letters, and things that are a bit ''like'' side lettters=== | ===Sensible uses for side letters, and things that are a bit ''like'' side lettters=== | ||