Legal interpretation : perspectives from other disciplines and private texts / Kent Greenawalt.
2010
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Legal interpretation : perspectives from other disciplines and private texts / Kent Greenawalt.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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K296 .G75 2010
ISBN
9780199756131 (hb : alk. paper)
0199756139 (hb : alk. paper)
0199756139 (hb : alk. paper)
Description
ix, 357 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)526812675
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Szladits fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Szladits fund
Table of Contents
1.
Introduction: Dimensions of Inquiry
1
pt. I
PERSPECTIVES FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES
17
2.
Speaker Intent and Convention; Linguistic Meaning and Pragmatics; Vagueness and Indeterminacy: Three Topics in the Philosophy of Language
19
3.
Literary Interpretation, Performance Art, and Related Subjects
59
4.
Religious Interpretation
107
5.
General Theories of Interpretation
149
6.
Starting from the Bottom: Informal Instructions
181
pt. II
INTERPRETING LEGALLY AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS
215
7.
The Law of Agency
217
8.
Wills
231
9.
Contracts
255
10.
Judicial Alterations of Textual Provisions: Cy Pres and Relatives
301
11.
Conclusion and a Comparison
329
Index
339