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Statutory interpretation is the process by which courts interpret and apply legislation. Some amount of interpretation is often necessary when a case involves a statute. Sometimes the words of a statute have a plain and a straightforward meaning.
Mar 10, 2023 · First, judges often begin by looking to the ordinary meaning of the statutory text, asking how a word is understood in common parlance. Judges may look to dictionaries, books, or databases for evidence of a word’s ordinary usage.
Learn how courts interpret and apply legislation, also known as statutory construction. Explore the tools, theories, and methods of statutory interpretation, such as textualism, purposivism, canons of construction, and legislative history.
In particular, this handout will address what to do before you begin interpreting a statute (Part I), tools of statutory interpretation (Part II), and theories of statutory interpretation (Part III) that can help inform which tools of interpretation you employ.
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Statutory construction is the process of determining what a statute means and how to apply it accurately in court. Learn about the tools, rules, and theories of statutory interpretation, and the difference between statutory construction and statutory interpretation.
A Dozen Canons of Statutory and Constitutional Text Construction. Supremacy-of-Text Principle. The words of a governing text are of paramount concern, and what they convey, in their context, is what the text means. Principle of Interrelating Canons. No canon of interpretation is absolute.
The rules of statutory interpretation were analysed by Professor John Willis in his influential article “Statutory Interpretation in a Nutshell” (1938). He suggested that: ‘a court invokes whichever of the rules produces a result that satisfies its sense of justice in the case before it.
