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Everyone happy, right? Now what should happen if, unexpectedly, it becomes illegal to supply doctored bowls of M&Ms (look, let’s just say OK?)? Without a functioning severability clause, the contract might be void. ''I might never get my money back''. | Everyone happy, right? Now what should happen if, unexpectedly, it becomes illegal to supply doctored bowls of M&Ms (look, let’s just say OK?)? Without a functioning severability clause, the contract might be void. ''I might never get my money back''. | ||
''Really?'' This reasoning seems to depend on a rather rigid application of a latin maxim (''ex turpi causa non oritur actio) whereas the common law, if it ever thought that, doesn’t any more (see {{casenote|Patel|Mirza}}). | ''Really?'' This reasoning seems to depend on a rather rigid application of a latin maxim (“''ex turpi causa non oritur actio''”) whereas the common law, if it ever thought that, doesn’t any more (see {{casenote|Patel|Mirza}}). | ||