Comparative legal interpretation
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: Law -- Interpretation and construction; Law -- Philosophy; Comparative law
Description: This title focuses on textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. Greenawalt covers the dominant methods of legal interpretation explaining their underlying structure and efficacy.
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.