AuthorGreenawalt, Kent, 1936-
TitleLegal interpretation : perspectives from other disciplines and private texts / Kent Greenawalt
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
Descript ix, 357 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Law -- Interpretation and construction
  2. Law -- Philosophy
  3. Comparative law

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