What the eye don’t see the chef gets away with
A vital part of pragmatic jurisprudence, neatly captured by the Latin maxim.
quod occulo non videt coquus non est culpandum
Comes in two flavours:
- covenants by which you expect counterparties to promptly advise you of their breach of contract to you
- Covenants the breach of which you cannot realistically expect to ever find out about.