TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenawalt,Kent
TI  - Statutory and common law interpretation
SN  - 9780199756148
AV  - K231 .G74 2013
U1  - 340/.1 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford [UK], New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - Common law
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 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. -
ER  -