I have been going through several legal documents lately and have realised that a lot of them use the fragment "any or any" within some sentences.
Failing to place a guard or fence or warning signs so as to give any or any adequate warning it was in a dangerous condition and a trap to persons lawfully using the same
Any ideas what purpose "any or any" serves here? I mean, when one uses the word "any" that doesn't need to subsequently be qualified as it is all-encompassing; well, at least that's what I thought.
Best Answer
If you analyze the sentence and turn it into the lexical units that it consists of, you get something like this:
The word warning is elided from the sentence you quoted. Perhaps the defendant will claim that a warning was given. The plaintiff's complaint or the law (I don't know which has been quoted here) says that even if a warning was given, it did not meet the legal requirements if it was not an adequate warning. This means that any or any is not a complete phrase.