On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At Place X, if I buy a chocolate bar I must buy an ice cream cone, and >> if I buy an ice cream cone I must buy a chocolate bar. Therefore, the >> chocolate bar and the ice cream cone together are one item. > > They're two separate items physically, but in terms of purchases, they > are indeed a single item. > > I'm not disputing that the Left Hand and Right Hand are based on > physically separate bodies of text. I'm suggesting that at the > abstract level that we actually care about, they are an aggregate and > should be considered a single contract.
Maybe you care about a different abstract level than those who agree to the Hands; I expect that most of their parties care that they be treated as separate contracts. --Ivan Hope CXXVII
