Greenawalt, Kent,  1936- <br/><br/>
Legal interpretation :  perspectives from other disciplines and private texts / 
Kent Greenawalt. 
 - ix, 357 pages ;  24 cm 
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<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199756131 (hb : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010007433 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law--Interpretation and construction<br/>Comparative law<br/>Law--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K296  / .G74 2010