01687cam a2200301 a 4500 4455 4455 17220222 OSt 20221123152134.0 120321s2013 enk b 001 0 eng 2012012055 9780199756148 DLC KABLIB KABLIB pcc K231 .G74 2013 340/.1 23 Greenawalt, Kent. 1936- 11676 Statutory and common law interpretation / Kent Greenawalt. Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013. x, 391 p. : 25 cm. Includes: Index. (379-391) 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. - Law Interpretation and construction. 11677 Common law. 11678 Law Methodology. 11679 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK