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{{a|plainenglish|[[File:Fuselage.png|450px|thumb|center|A legal eagle back from a routine training contract, yesterday]]}}Legal drafting designed to disarm playground-standard rhetorical techniques.  
{{a|plainenglish|[[File:Fuselage.png|450px|thumb|center|A legal eagle back from a routine training contract, yesterday]]}}Legal drafting designed to disarm playground-standard rhetorical techniques.  


For if you fear your counterparty may make the point that, while it did receive the [[fruits of the contract|fruits of the agreement]] it made with you, and therefore got what it wanted, it didn’t receive them ''directly from you'' — that by carrying out your promise, at your own cost, through the offices of an [[agent]], [[employee]] or other [[fiduciary]] [[representative]] of your mortal coil — by merely ''procuring'' performance and not performing in person — you have somehow ''wronged'' your counterparty,<ref>The exception that proves the rule is the personal appearance of a celebrity, which one cannot, as a matter of logic, do through an [[agent]] anyway.</ref> then your main concern should not be imprecision in your [[Mediocre lawyer|counsel]]’s drafting, but why on earth you’re entering legal relations with such a goose in the first place.
For if you fear your counterparty may complain that, while it did receive the [[fruits of the contract|fruits of your agreement]], and got what it wanted, it didn’t get them ''directly from you'' — that, by carrying out your promise, at your own cost, through the offices of an [[agent]], [[employee]] or other [[fiduciary]] [[representative]] of your mortal coil — by merely ''procuring'' performance and not performing in person — you have somehow ''wronged'' your counterparty,<ref>The rule-proving exception is the personal appearance of a celebrity, which one can’t, logically, do through an [[agent]] anyway.</ref> then your main concern should not be imprecision in your [[Mediocre lawyer|counsel]]’s drafting, but why on earth you’re entering legal relations with such a goose in the first place.


It is a principle of [[equity]], of business, of ''common flipping sense'' that one should ''[[don’t be that guy|not be that guy]]''.
It is a principle of [[equity]], of business, of ''common flipping sense'' that one should ''[[don’t be that guy|not be that guy]]''.

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