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+Plan flaw - The use of the word will in the plan allows uncertainty of the time of implementation and of implementation of the aff itself. |
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+Bishop 11 |
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+Keith R. Bishop - California Commissioner of Corporations and Interim Savings and Loan Commissioner, currently partner at Allen Matkins’ Corporate Law Group: “When Shall/Will/Must/May We Meet Again?” California Corporate Law 11/29/11; http://calcorporatelaw.com/2011/11/when-shallwillmustmay-we-meet-again/ |
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+Lawyers are very fond of using the word “shall” in articles of incorporation, bylaws and agreements. Using “shall” instead of “will” seems to add a certain level of formality (or perhaps pretension). It may also be intended to convey the meaning that something must happen and not simply that it may happen in the future. |
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+Indeed, there is an etymological basis for a distinction between “shall” and “will”. Both are Old English words: “shall” is derived from sceal meaning to owe while “will” is derived from from “willan” meaning to desire or wish. |
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+Small mistakes have huge legislative consequences-turns case. |
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+Heath 06 Brad, USA Today, 11-21-06, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-20-typo-problems_x.htm |
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+In the legislative world, such small errors, while uncommon, can carry expensive consequences. In a few cases around the nation this year, typos and other blunders have redirected millions of tax dollars or threatened to invalidate new laws. |