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Legal interpretation : perspectives from other disciplines and private texts
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- Creator
- Kent Greenawalt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- ix, 357 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0199756139, 9780199756131
- OCLC
- ocn526812675
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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