Legal interpretation :
Greenawalt, Kent, 1936-
Legal interpretation : perspectives from other disciplines and private texts / Kent Greenawalt. - ix, 357 pages ; 24 cm
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.
9780199756131 (hb : alk. paper)
2010007433
Law--Interpretation and construction
Comparative law
Law--Philosophy
K296 / .G74 2010
Legal interpretation : perspectives from other disciplines and private texts / Kent Greenawalt. - ix, 357 pages ; 24 cm
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.
9780199756131 (hb : alk. paper)
2010007433
Law--Interpretation and construction
Comparative law
Law--Philosophy
K296 / .G74 2010
