Excerpt from Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws Use of Same Language and Change of Language. Grammatical Interpretation Inapt and Inaccurate Language. Statute Devoid of Meaning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Rules Which Govern the Interpretation and Construction of Statutory and Constitutional Law The treatise upon the Interpretation and Application of Stat utery and Constitutional Law, like that upon the Measure of°dam ages by the same author, has been, from the date of its publication, regarded as a legal classic. Based, in the main, ' upon the decisions of American courts, and discussing the principles of statutory con struction as they have been expounded and illustrated by those tribunals, it has been far more useful to the American lawyer, and has been more readily accepted as a guide and helper by American judges, than any work upon the same subject founded chiefly upon English precedents and drawing its materials from English sources. Originally published in the year 1857, the first impression was long ago exhausted, and a new edition has long been demanded. This want is now supplied, and a new edition is offered to the profession. It is proper for the editor to explain its plan, and the nature and scope of the additions which he has made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Cardinal Rules of Legal Interpretation The Interpretation Act, 1889, and also the now repealed Act, commonly known as Lord Brougham's Act, 1850, are printed the latter in italics-for reference in the Appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the field of law and politics in all its diversity, ranging from such traditional subjects as theories of jurisprudence, constitutionalism, judicial politics and law-and-society to such re-emerging subjects as comparative judicial politics, international law, and democratization. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics gathers together leading scholars in the field to assess key literatures shaping the discipline today and to help set the direction of research in the decade ahead.

Excerpt from Handbook on the Law of Judicial Precedents, or the Science of Case Law Agreeably to this plan and purpose, the work has been made to include an extended consideration of the nature and authority of judicial precedents; their place in compar ative jurisprudence and in equity; the rules which govern the interpretation of judicial decisions and opinions; the processes of analogical argument and of combining cases; the various and complicated considerations which may ai feet the force and value of a non-obligatory precedent; the nature of dicta and the method of their detection and the reasons for their want of authority; the general doctrine of stare decisis, with its special applications to cases of con stitutional and statutory construction, to those judgments which have become rules of property and to the law of the case; the authority of precedents as between various courts of the same state and as between the several courts of the federal system; the use of precedents from other states and foreign countries, with the various causes which may affect their rank in the scale of authority, the reasons for approving them or for criticising them, and the under lying principles which induce the courts to follow the bet ter reason or the general current of authority; the ci fect of the decisions of the United States courts as author ities in the courts of the states; the great and difficult sub j ect of the cases in which the federal courts are constrained to accept and follow the decisions of the state courts and those in which they hold themselves free to form an inde pendent judgment; and finally, the effect of the reversal or overruling of previous judicial decisions. Also, as among the fundamentals of the subject, it has been necessary to consider (in the first chapter) the rules for the solution of novel questions or cases of first impression, and the proper attitude of the courts in the face of precedents which are challenged as obsolete or as locally inapplicable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A Manual of the Business Corporation Law of Massachusetts This Manual contains the text of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law of 1903, and, following each section, concise notes of such decisions upon the efiect of former statutes relating to corporations as may aid in the construction and interpretation of the new act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.