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    It is not the case that An obligation that is allegedly enforced by contradictory grounds simultaneously — verdict and pre-verdict agreement — produces a legal nullity, as Leibniz argued in his early jurisprudential work on the logic of conditions.

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    • 1.Contradictory grounds may coexist in law without nullity if they operate in different contexts or apply to different parties.
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    • 2.Legal systems routinely recognize conditional obligations that remain valid despite contingent or changing evidentiary bases.
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    • 3.Leibniz's formal logic of conditions may not map onto actual jurisprudence, which tolerates practical tensions unresolvable in pure logic.
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    • 1.Contradictory legal grounds create logical impossibility: one cannot simultaneously bind and not bind a party to identical obligations.
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    • 2.Pre-verdict agreements and verdicts serve incompatible epistemic functions—one presumes facts, the other determines them.
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    • 3.Legal nullity prevents unjust enrichment by refusing to enforce obligations grounded in self-defeating logical conditions.
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