Understanding Common Law Legislation
Subtitle: Drafting and Interpretation
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199564101
Subjects: Common law; Statutes; Law, interpretation and construction
Description: Common law largely operates through statutes enacted by democratic legislature, and these mainly fall to be construed according to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons evolved over centuries by common law judges.