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====Specific examples==== | ====Specific examples==== | ||
*''For the avoidance of doubt'': This is an explicit acknowledgment that what you have just written contains doubt. You are a solicitor | *''For the avoidance of doubt'': This is an explicit acknowledgment that what you have just written contains doubt. You are a solicitor: a wordwright; an officer of the Queen's English. You have a qualification in the unambigous conveyance of ideas. Physician, heal thyself. | ||
* | *''[insert general expression] (including, without limitation ...)'': logically does not, and cannot, add or subtract from the general expression. It is either the statement of the logically inevitable (if the stated instance indeed is an example of the general expression) or it is flat out wrong (if it is not) - in which case ''change the general expression''. | ||
* | *'' ... unless otherwise agreed by the parties'': This is true of every english law contract there ever was. The clue is the definition of "contract". It's ''an agreement between the parties''. | ||
*"and/or" | *"and/or" | ||
*"We reserve the right to ..." - Wait a minute: Did you just give that right away? If so, you can't reserve it. If you didn't, you've still got it, so - you know - ''shut up already''. | *"We reserve the right to ..." - Wait a minute: Did you just give that right away? If so, you can't reserve it. If you didn't, you've still got it, so - you know - ''shut up already''. | ||