Foundations Series
Reading the Statute
Text, structure, definitions, and the canons of construction.
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Bibliographic Record
Metadata.
- Series
- Foundations Series
- Volume
- Monograph No. 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publication Date
- MMXXVI
- Document Type
- Educational Guide
- Status
- Forthcoming
- Authors
- Faculty of the School of Legal Research
- ISBN
- 978-1-959000-07-9
- Permanent Identifier
- reading-the-statute
- Subjects
- Statutory interpretation · Legislation · Canons
- Keywords
- Statutory interpretation, Legislation, Canons
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Abstract
On the scope of the work.
A second Foundations monograph on the reading of statutes: text, structure, definitions, cross-references, and the canons of construction as a working apparatus.
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Editorial Description
On the structure of the volume.
The monograph treats the statute as a written instrument. It begins with the title and the enacting clause, takes up the definitional section, and proceeds to the operative provisions in the order in which they appear.
Successive chapters introduce the canons of construction — textual, contextual, and substantive — and the use of legislative history as a subordinate aid.
A closing chapter addresses the relation of the statute to the regulation that implements it and to the judicial opinion that construes it.
The volume is intended as a companion to the first Foundations monograph and as a bridge to the doctrinal work of the Schools.
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Series
Foundations Series
Educational guides for students of the Academy. The hierarchy of authority, the reading of statutes, and the architecture of citation.
Foundations volumes are written for the entering student. They presume no prior training and end where the Schools begin.
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Related Schools
The faculty of the work.
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Related Library Divisions
The divisions of the archive consulted in the preparation of this work.
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Preferred Citation
On citing this work.
Faculty of the School of Legal Research, Reading the Statute, Real Law Society Foundations Series Monograph No. 2 (1st ed. MMXXVI).
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Editorial Notes
On revision and review.
Prior editions of this work, where any, are retained in the institutional archive of the Society. Citations in the present edition have been verified against the controlling source as of the date of publication.
The work was reviewed by faculty of the relevant School before issue and is subject to revision as the governing instruments change. The Press accepts no instruction from outside the institution.
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Related Publications
Other volumes in the catalogue.
Companion works from the same series, and other publications of the Press on related subjects.
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