Reading Law

Scalia, A., & Garner, B. A. (2012). Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts.

Type

Web resource

Intellectual base

Web

Year

2012

Link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Law:_The_Interpretation_of_Legal_Texts

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics, literature_literary_theory

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Close Reading
  • Legal interpretation: textualist statutory and constitutional interpretation, contract construction, and treaty analysis, where reading every word as load-bearing — down to the placement of a comma — is close reading applied to legal artefacts.

    This sourceTextualist canon treating every word — down to punctuation — of statutes and constitutions as load-bearing.

• Pragmatics
  • Law. Statutory interpretation supplements text with legislative purpose, surrounding sections, and customary usage; contracts are read against course-of-dealing.

    This sourceTreats statutory interpretation as supplementing text with context, surrounding provisions, purpose, and customary usage.

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