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Purpose in Law and in Interpretation
International and Comparative Law QuarterlyAbstract The common law tradition has always been sceptical of philosophy, prioritising the importance of practical experience in real world cases over abstract general ideas. This article attempts to demonstrate how the ideas of two philosophers—Fuller and Wittgenstein—help to explain the widespread use of the notion of purpose in ...
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The “Purpose” of the Purpose Interpretation
Open Journal of Legal Science, 2023openaire +1 more source
The purpose of immunity: Landsteiner's interpretation of the human isoantibodies
Journal of the History of Biology, 1975In the 1890's, when immunology was beginning to develop, there was no difficulty in fitting it into the Darwinian pattern of survival of the fittest. The phagocytes in Elie Metchnikoff's theory of immunity and the serum antibodies in the theory of Emil von Behring both had an obvious role in the defense of the organism against attacking bacteria ...
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Pooling imprecision for interpretative purposes
Clinica Chimica Acta, 2007Raül, Rigo-Bonnin +3 more
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A purposive approach to the interpretation of tax statutes?
Statute Law Review, 1999Various dicta in high profile tax cases such as Pepper v. Hart and IRC v. McGuckian suggest that the judges should always have in mind the 'intention of Parliament' and that, indeed, the literal approach to the interpretation of statutes has been 'liberated' by the purposive approach. Such has been the influence of these dicta, that the Tax Law Rewrite
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