Greenawalt, Kent.  1936- <br/><br/>
Statutory and common law interpretation / 
Kent Greenawalt. 
 - Oxford [UK] ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  c2013. 
 - x, 391 p. :  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes: Index. (379-391) 
<br/><br/>Judges as faithful agents or independent, cooperative actors? -- The basic core of statutory interpretation : text and intent -- The place of legislative history, and purpose v. specific meanings -- What else counts, and should count, for statutory interpretation? Executive participation, subsequent legislative history, independent principles of decision, prior judicial interpretation, the passage of time, and legislative direction -- Administrative interpretation and the complications it reveals -- Some central questions about common law decisions -- Precedent : importance and context --Reasoning by analogy -- Other bases for decision : principles and consequential considerations -- comparisons and conclusions. - 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199756148 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012012055 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law--Interpretation and construction.<br/>Common law.<br/>Law--Methodology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K231  / .G74 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>340/.1