Legal interpretation : perspectives from other disciplines and private texts /
Greenawalt, Kent,1936-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: dimensions of inquiry -- Speaker intent and convention; linguistic meaning and pragmatics; vagueness and indeterminacy: three topics in the philosophy of language -- Literary interpretation, performance art, and related subjects -- Religious interpretation -- General theories of interpretation -- Starting from the bottom: informal instructions -- The law of agency -- Wills -- Contracts -- Judicial alterations of textual provisions: Cy Pres and relatives -- Conclusion and a comparison.
Law
Law
Comparative law.