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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> | ||
A sort of dark inversion of a [[cocktail napkin]]. | A sort of dark inversion of a [[cocktail napkin]]. A binding legal agreement written in magic ink such that you can only see it when you look directly at it, which undermines the one everyone else can see, that is written in black and white. | ||
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 operates to undermine it utterly. | 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 operates to undermine it utterly. | ||