Statutory interpretation is the process by which courts interpret and apply legislation. Some amount of interpretation is often necessary when a case involves...

legislation relating to interpretation of legislation Judicial interpretation, an interpretation of law by a judiciary Statutory interpretation, determining the...

construction, purposive interpretation, or the modern principle in construction) is an approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation under which common...

Public and private bills Organic statute Super statute Constitution Statutory interpretation Black, Henry Campbell (1990). Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition...

Supreme Court. On an interpretation of state law, whether common law or statutory law, the federal courts are bound by the interpretation of a state court...

The mischief rule is one of three rules of statutory interpretation traditionally applied by English courts, the other two being the "plain meaning rule"...

The major questions doctrine is a principle of statutory interpretation applied in United States administrative law cases which states that courts will...

presented. Riggs v. Palmer (Earl, J): used the "social purpose" rule of statutory construction, the process of interpreting a will. Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon...

Separation of powers Statutory interpretation John E. Finn (2006). "Part I: Lecture 4: The Court and Constitutional Interpretation". Civil Liberties and...

has continued to teach civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. On September 26, 2020, Trump nominated Barrett to succeed Ruth...

Textualism is the perspective of statutory interpretation in which the courts should read the words of that statutory text as any ordinary member of congress...

Originalism is a method of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Most Originalists assert that legal text should be interpreted based on the original...

Limits of Literalism: Defining the Absurd Result Principle in Statutory Interpretation", 44 Am. U. L. Rev. 127, 1994–95 (purchase required for access...

employment. By using statutory interpretation in the majority opinion, the Court in Price Waterhouse expanded the interpretation of Title VII to “establish...

status that same year. Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the United States Constitution...

particularly constitutional documents and legislation (see statutory interpretation). In logic, an interpretation is an assignment of meaning to the symbols of a...

construe their country's statutory law: linguistics or semantics, common law and jurisprudence. Although statutory interpretation usually involves a personal...

decision of the House of Lords on the use of legislative history in statutory interpretation. The court established the principle that when primary legislation...

meaning rule, also known as the literal rule, is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts. The other two are...

Analogia legis, also known as "statutory analogy" or "analogy from statute", is a method of statutory interpretation in which the legal principle applicable...

of statutory construction traditionally applied by the English courts. The rule can be used to avoid the consequences of a literal interpretation of the...

importance of the separation of powers and literal approach to statutory interpretation. Two others overturn the convictions; one focuses on "common sense"...

ambiguity in the statutory language, but noted that even if these arguments successfully argued for ambiguity in the text, NMFS's interpretation of the MSA...

themes from the work itself: (1) Institutional competence, (2) Statutory interpretation, and (3) principled decisionmaking. "This perspective stresses...

Original intent is a theory in law concerning constitutional and statutory interpretation. It is frequently used as a synonym for originalism;[1] while original...

United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls, 413 F. Supp. 1281 (D. Wisc. 1976)...

analysts claimed that the case defined Gorsuch as a textualist in statutory interpretation. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed into law amid the civil...

2016–2020. He writes primarily on constitutional law, legislation and statutory interpretation, religion, marriage equality, and LGBT rights. After earning a...

question of judicial activism is closely related to judicial interpretation, statutory interpretation, and separation of powers. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. introduced...

seek an objective interpretation of the law. The jurisprudence of statutory interpretation is not settled in Australia. Interpretive doctrines such as the...