State Legislative Drafting Manuals and Statutory Interpretation

Hart, G. E. (2016). State Legislative Drafting Manuals and Statutory Interpretation. Yale Law Journal, 126(2), 438-490.

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2016

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https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/state-legislative-drafting-manuals-and-statutory-interpretation

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  • Tax statutes drafted with awareness that they will be excerpted and paraphrased by parties with different reading conventions apply the same move to policy.

    This sourceDocuments that drafting manuals codify formatting/grammar/usage conventions precisely because statutory text is read selectively and excerpted by courts and others with differing interpretive conventions — drafting in anticipation of downstream recomposition.

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