Legal interpretation
Subtitle: perspectives from other disciplines and private texts
By: Kent Greenawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780199756131
Subjects: Philosophy; Comparative law; Law; Interpretation and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: dimensions of inquiry; title: Speaker intent and convention; linguistic meaning and pragmatics; vagueness and indeterminacy: three topics in the philosophy of language; title: Literary interpretation, performance art, and related subjects; title: Religious interpretation; title: General theories of interpretation; title: Starting from the bottom: informal instructions; title: The law of agency; title: Wills; title: Contracts; title: Judicial alterations of textual provisions: Cy Pres and relatives; title: Conclusion and a comparison.