Who cares what you have by definition? What matters is whether you're on average better off in practice. It's cold comfort to have legal recourse technically a

Who cares what you have by definition? What matters is whether you're on average better off in practice. It's cold comfort to have legal recourse technically available, if it's never worth the time and money to pursue it. If you have to seek recourse at all you've already "lost" --- the recourse never really makes you whole, given your broken expectations, time to pursue, etc.