Title: Statutes & their interpretation in the first half of the fourteenth century /
Authors: Plucknett, Theodore F. T.
Date: 1922
Publisher: The University Press,
Physical description: xliv, 200 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: I. Legislation and legal thought in the early fourteenth century -- Origins and early forms of written law -- Text and translation -- The legislature and its place -- Statutes and the common law -- Statutes and ordinances -- Legal thought -- II. Examples of interpretation -- General words and literal construction -- The intention of the legislature -- "Exceptions out of the statute" -- Refusal of the courts to apply statutes -- Extension of the words of a statute -- Strict interpretation -- Conflict of statutes -- Ignorance of statutes among contemporary lawyers -- The retrospective effect of statutes -- Judicial discretion -- Statutes and the common law -- Statutes and the royal prerogative -- Statutory writs -- The interpretation of particular statutes.
Notes: "Based on a detailed study of the Year books of the first half of the 14th century."--Author's pref. Originally presented, in smaller form, as a dissertation, at Cambridge university. cf. Author's pref.
Subject headings (LCSH): Law--Great Britain--Interpretation and construction.; Law--Interpretation and construction; Statutes--Great Britain.; Statutes.