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Legislative Intent: The Use of Positive Political Theory in Statutory Interpretation [PDF]
, 1994 The usefulness of legislative history has been brought into question concerning how judges interpret the intent of legislation. The structure of the legislative process is examined in order to identify how legislators solve the problem of instability of ...
McNollgast,
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Statutory interpretation: New comparative dimensions [PDF]
, 2005 Horst Klaus ...
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Statutory Interpretation through the Prism of the Bill of Rights: S v Litako 2014 SACR 431 (SCA) [PDF]
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2015 On 16 April 2014, the Supreme Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the matter of S v Litako 2014 2 SACR 431 (SCA) ("Litako"). The judgment reconsiders the landmark decision of the same court, S v Ndhlovu 2002 2 SACR 325 (SCA) ("Ndhlovu") in which the ...
Salona Lutchman
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Approaches to Statutory Interpretation and Legislative History in France [PDF]
, 2003 The study investigated potential effects of the presentation order of numeric information on retrospective subjective judgments of descriptive statistics of this information.
Lindskog, Marcus, Winman, Anders
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Argumentation in the Interpretation of Statutory Law and International Law: Not Ejusdem Generis
Languages, 2022 This contribution bridges three fields—pragmatics, argumentation, and law. Arguments can be seen as the verbal formulation of inferences that articulate justificatory relationships, meaning that behind every argument is at least one argumentative ...
Jennifer Smolka
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Type theft especially bold in the code criminal from 1969 and current – evaluation comparative
Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2023 In the code criminal case of 1969 appeared for the first time first new type theft specified statutory as theft " especially audacious." The concept is not left By at that time legislator defined, which meant that trouble interpretation he rested on ...
Leszek Wilk
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Statutory Interpretation in Econotopia [PDF]
, 2004 Much of the debate in the recent revival of interest in statutory interpretation centers on whether or not courts should use legislative history in construing statutes.
Nathan B. Oman
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Die sakelys vir wetsteksvertolking en die epog van konstitusionalisme in Suid-Afrika
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1999 The agenda for legislative-text interpretation and the epoch of constitutionalism in South Africa This article deals with the new demands that the advent of an era (or epoch) of constitutionalism places on the agenda o f statutory and constitutional ...
Lourens du Plessis
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019 Most interpretational problems in law pertain to the meaning of words. However, in this paper I address problems caused in Polish courts by grammar (namely: syntax and inflexion) of legal provisions.
Mateusz ZEIFERT
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Legislating to communicate: Plain English guidelines explicated using the USA Patriot Act 2001
Victoria University Law and Justice Journal, 2011 In Lifting the Fog of Legalese, Joseph Kimble offered a set of guidelines for writing in clearer language. He does not provide a method for the interpretation and grammatical analysis of those guidelines. This article provides that analysis. Examples are
Edwin Tanner
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