> This type of "trick" is foundational to... every common law system. Disagree. Courts bend and stretch the law but only up to a point, and the more twisted in

> This type of "trick" is foundational to... every common law system. Disagree. Courts bend and stretch the law but only up to a point, and the more twisted interpretations tend to get overruled. Precedent is respected but only up to a point. And when people do apply a trick, everyone acknowledges that it's a trick, that they're subverting the will of the original drafters of the law because they think they know better than them.