Assertion: paragraph | /r/MadeOf | opening words
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text: (1) Sections and subsections may contain opening words (also called the chapeau or umbrella ) followed by other units of text, including: (a) paragraphs , which are called "clauses" in some provincial legislation and may contain opening words followed by other units of text and punctuation, including (i) subparagraphs , which are called "subclauses" in some provincial legislation and may contain opening words followed by other units of text, including (A) clauses , which are called "paragraphs" in some provincial legislation and may contain opening words followed by other units of text and punctuation, including (I) subclauses , which are called "subparagraphs" in some provincial legislation, and (II) a comma at the end, unless the subclauses are at the end of a higher unit of text, and (B) a comma at the end, unless the subparagraphs are at the end of a higher unit of text, and (ii) a semi-colon at the end, unless the paragraph is at the end of a section or subsection; and (b) units of texts found only in clause sandwiches , which, because they (i) have no official name, and (ii) do not correspond to grammatical concepts outside legal discourse, are commonly known as middle sections or mid-ambles (if they divide two series of units of text) and, if a sentence (iii) keeps on going, or (iv) is followed by another sentence within the same section or subsection, the unit that follows is called a bottom or tail section or a post-amble and the numbering of the intervening units continues the numbering from the series of units above the middle section.