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It is a founding premise of legal inquiry that one does not waste words: a party who has taken the trouble to insert them, must have meant something by them.  
It is a founding premise of legal inquiry that one does not waste words: parties who have gone to the trouble of inserting words, must have ''meant'' something by them.


Counter-examples are legion, of course, but of all the inane things a [[legal eagle]] can commit to a page – one hopes readers of this site by now will be persuaded there are many – none is quite so pointless as this:
Counter-examples are legion, of course, but of all the vaccuities a [[legal eagle]] can commit to a page – one hopes readers of this site by now will be persuaded there are many – none is quite so pointless as this:


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