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''The Issuer [[to the | ''The Issuer [[to the fullest extent permissible by law]], accepts no liability for the contents of this prospectus...''}} | ||
{{sex|She}} might pause briefly, on that first fumbling encounter, and wonder what legal mischief this [[incantation]] is [[calculated]] to ward off. Does the law assume that any contractual provision is [[deemed]], unless you say to the contrary, to be half-hearted in its intent — a choked nine-iron back onto the fairway from behind a tree, and not a full-throated drive at the green? | {{sex|She}} might pause briefly, on that first fumbling encounter, and wonder what legal mischief this [[incantation]] is [[calculated]] to ward off. Does the law assume that any contractual provision is [[deemed]], unless you say to the contrary, to be half-hearted in its intent — a choked nine-iron back onto the fairway from behind a tree, and not a full-throated drive at the green? | ||
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“Okay, okay, I ''get'' it. You aren’t responsible. ''Jesus''. Calm ''down'' already.” | “Okay, okay, I ''get'' it. You aren’t responsible. ''Jesus''. Calm ''down'' already.” | ||
Now, should it transpire that | Now, should it transpire that the fullest extent of the law does ''not'' allow the Issuer off a hook to which the law’s gentler passages might have turned a blind eye — we quite like the idea there are lazy stretches further down the legal river that aren’t as wild as its farthest reaches, by the way — then investors will get the benefit of that full extent, however fulsome or terse the Issuer’s disclaimer. | ||
So what does the Issuer gain by tempering its disclaimer with this “fullest extent” vacillation? | |||
As do so many of the hypotheticals posed in these pages, we suppose this one too will turn out to be a rhetorical question. | |||
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*[[I never said you couldn’t]] | |||
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