Where a rent review clause in a commercial lease produces exponentially compounding increases bearing no rational relationship to inflation due to a drafting error, the court may read in corrective words under the absurdity rule established in Fitzgerald v Masters and Cooper Brookes. The absurdity rule is not confined to cases of textual ambiguity, but mere unreasonableness is insufficient — the result must be truly absurd. The distinction between absurdity and unreasonableness is critical to the rule's application.
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