Legislative interpretation canons

• [DOC File]Legislative Process and Statutory Interpretation

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  2 Substantive Canons. Lenity—when criminal statute ambiguous, interpret in favor of defendant (McBoyle) Avoiding constitutional questions (NLRB v. Catholic Bishops) Doctrine of severability—when a statute is unconstitutional in some applications, it’s only held invalid as to the unconstitutional aspects (subject to legislative intent).

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• [DOCX File]The Legislative Process - Carter & Sahadi

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  (The expression of one specific thing is the exclusion of another.) Karl Llewellyn, the famous legal realist theorist of the mid-twentieth century, argued that these canons are indeterminate, because they come in matched and contradictory pairs. Protocol: Legislative …

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• [DOC File]How to Read A Statute - University of Washington

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  3. Extrinsic Sources and Legislative History. Reference Canons: Presumptive rules telling the interpreter what other materials (e.g. common law, other statutes, legislative history, agency interpretations) to consult to discern a statute. Extrinsic aids for statutory interpretation: Common law. Legislative history/background (disfavored by ...

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• [DOC File]I

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  This is known as doctrinal interpretation. Further, we have discussed that the legislature itself gives meaning to laws through the means of legislation and this is called legislative interpretation. We have seen that there are . canons of interpretation developed through practice and accepted by courts in common law system. They are:

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• [DOC File]Summary of Legislation and statutory interpretation

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  Statutory Interpretation and Regulation Outline. The Legislative Process. How the Federal Legislative Process Works. House Procedure. Introduction- by Representative only. Committee Referral- referred by Speaker to Committee. Committee- can handle things only tangentially related to subject area/title of committee. Subcommittee Referral

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• [DOCX File]National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia

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  In addition to court opinions, which give guidance to the interpretation of a statute, legislative history and canons of construction may be consulted. Legislative history is composed of all the legislative material and records concerning a statute before it became law.

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• Interpretation (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

  Institutional Canons (Reference Canons): Defer to... Stare Decisis – taken very seriously. Previous executive interpretations/agency (Chevron/Skidmore) Legislative History. Substantive: determine meaning by giving special weight to some interest favored by the law. Rule of Lenity. Canon favoring taxpayers agnst the gov. Canon favoring indian ...

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