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CANONS OF CONSTRUCTION


The Utility and Limits of Canons of Construction in Public ...

While the canons of construction are relevant to any decision-maker or observer in the field of international law seeking to interpret a treaty, this chapter ...

The Canons of Construction - Statutory Interpretation Review

Review session about the traditional Canons of Construction that courts use in interpreting statutes - which have seen a revival in recent ...

67:3. Canons of statutory construction | Secondary Sources - Westlaw

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Statutory Interpretation: General Principles and Recent Trends

To help clarify uncertainty, judges have developed various interpretive tools in the form of canons of construction. Canons broadly fall into ...

Should Courts Stop Using "Substantive" Canons of Construction?

Some substantive canons really might be derived from longstanding principles of general law, or fair inferences from other legal rules. The ...

"Loose Canons: Statutory Construction and the New Nondelegation ...

This article asks whether courts or administrative agencies have constitutional authority to narrowly construe statutes to save them from truly serious ...

What is Their Role, if Any, in Modern Jurisprudence?

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Canons of Statutory Construction - Colorado LegiSource

These canons of statutory construction are interpretive principles that drafters in the Office of Legislative Legal Services often consider when drafting bills.

Canons of Construction | Harvard Law Review

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Legislation and Regulation Videos: Canons of Statutory Interpretation I

They're not substantive or binding legal principles adopted by courts, so they don't neatly qualify as common-law doctrines. Black's Law ...

Endangered Species Act "Sample Lesson" Statutory Construction

Historically, individual "rules" or "canons" of statutory construction generally have been based upon one of four distinct approaches, depending upon the ...

Statutes, Treaties, Regulations, Executive Orders, Directives, etc.

(canons of statutory construction are tools designed to help courts better determine what Congress intended, not to lead courts to interpret the law contrary to ...

RULES OF INTERPRETATION AND CANONS OF CONSTRUCTION

“Texas courts have developed the rules of interpretation to determine a contract's meaning and canons of construction determine its legal effect.” • McCarty v.

Rules of Statutory Construction - Supreme Court of the United States

All the "terms" used by government opponent "United States", myself, and the Court, the following rules of statutory construction and interpretation MUST apply.

Tag: canons of construction - Kansas Law Review

Kansas Supreme Court interprets “drug paraphernalia” in K.S.A. § 21-5709(b) as plural so that there can only be a single unit of prosecution ...

Textualism's Selective Canons of Statutory Construction

This Article demonstrates that textualist Judges, most notably Justices Scalia, Thomas, and, to a lesser extent, Kennedy, have applied some canons too ...

Canons, the Plenary Power Doctrine, and Immigration Law

On the other hand, courts frequently use canons of statu- tory construction aggressively to help interpret immigration statutes in favor of aliens. Immigration ...

Canons of Construction for Dysfunctional Statutes: A Comment on...

Shaun Bennett's Whistling Loud and Clear: Applying Chevron to Subsection 21F of Dodd–Frank meticulously analyzes a securities law problem of considerable ...

What the Tortoise Says about Statutory Interpretation: The Semantic ...

Against this background, I argue that the semantic canons of construction belong to a class of rules that are by nature not reason-giving, or ...

the use of canons of statutory construction: a case study from iowa or ...

canons of statutory construction have developed through the years. Not rules of law, these canons are mere guides designed to chart an approach to the ...


Canons of page construction

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The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Old Kingdom of Egypt

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In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning c. 2700–2200 BC. It is also known as the "Age of the Pyramids" or the "Age of the Pyramid Builders", as it encompasses the reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the Fourth Dynasty, such as King Sneferu, under whom the art of pyramid-building was perfected, and the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, who commissioned the construction of the pyramids at Giza.

Ship of the line

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A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century.

Utopia

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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More, written in Latin and published in 1516. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.

Our Lady of Walsingham

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Our Lady of Walsingham is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus venerated by Catholics and High Church Anglicans associated with the Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches, a pious English noblewoman, in 1061 in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England.