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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Committed Hero" data-source="post: 9605314" data-attributes="member: 15341">A couple of points-Most contracts have happy endings. A lot of contractual language is an attempt to identify where things might go wrong because it has happened to one of the parties in the past. Word processing compounds this effect because it's easy to cut and paste.A lot of the flowery old language with "and" comes from the days of the Norman invasion of England, where the French-speaking noble class ruled over the Anglo-Saxon peasantry. To make proclamations understandable in both languages words from both languages were often combined in the same document. This is where we get "cease and desist," "devise and bequeath," "to have and to hold," and many other examples.</blockquote>