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:“including '''([[without limitation]] or application of the [[ejusdem generis]] rule)''' data (including ''[ ... and here follows a long and tedious catalogue of the various forms that data can take concluding with cat memes, GIFs and any and all other information, howsoever described]'', inasmuch and insofar as it relates to the Discloser.” | :“including '''([[without limitation]] or application of the [[ejusdem generis]] rule)''' data (including ''[ ... and here follows a long and tedious catalogue of the various forms that data can take concluding with cat memes, GIFs and any and all other information, howsoever described]'', inasmuch and insofar as it relates to the Discloser.” | ||
This, of all places, in that most saintedly | This, of all places, in that most saintedly over-vexed of all agreements, a ''[[confidentiality agreement]]''. | ||
This, readers, is [[legal eagle]]ry taken to an extraordinary, self-contradictory lengths. This is the [[legal eagle]] as [[The farmer and the sheep|farmer, cack-handedly counting her sheep]]. For what is the purpose of a laundry list of specifics in the first place, if not to somehow craft, contextualise or otherwise put some meaningful boundaries on a general expression which might otherwise have impossibly wide application? If you just want to capture all information, just ''say'' “all information”, and don’t trouble your | This, readers, is [[legal eagle]]ry taken to an extraordinary, self-contradictory lengths. This is the [[legal eagle]] as [[The farmer and the sheep|''farmer'', cack-handedly counting her sheep]]. For what is the purpose of a laundry list of specifics in the first place, if not to somehow craft, contextualise or otherwise put some meaningful boundaries on a general expression which might otherwise have impossibly wide application? If you just want to capture all information, just ''say'' “all information”, and be done with it; don’t trouble your counterparty with a laundry list which by this very theory, is patently redundant ''or'' the [[ejusdem generis]] [[carve-out]]. | ||