The Use of Brackets and the Four Corners Rule

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The use of brackets on certain information on a form combines a grammar device with legal theory to legally isolate whatever is in the brackets from (thus, render it legally inapplicable and insubstantial to) the body of text within the surrounding contract.

The legal theory for this comes from the Four Corners Rule in law:

Under "four corners rule", intention of parties, especially that of grantor, is to be gathered from instrument as a whole and not from isolated parts thereof. Davis v. Andrews, Tex.Civ.App., 361 S.W.2d 419,423. (Black's Law Dictionary, 5th ed. p. 591) combined with the definition and description of square brackets found in the Plymouth University Foundation Degree guidelines on essay writing,

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