Abstract
Closely connected to juridical praxeology is juridical methodology. While juridical praxeology studies juridical activities (the lawyers’ handling of legal orders), juridical methodology investigates how this handling should be performed. The principles of statutory interpretation constitute a central part of juridical methodology. In this chapter statutory interpretation is placed within a general typology of interpretation including interpretation in sciences, literature, art etc. Different concept of interpretation are presented. Against this background the established principles of statutory interpretation are discussed and systematised. The special character of statutory interpretation is analysed. This more general and comparative approach to the study of statutory interpretation is, it seems, not made before.
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Notes
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In the sense of “precisation” used by Naess (1953). In Naess’ vocabulary, precisation is not the same as “interpretation”. While interpretation, logically speaking, is a symmetric, reflexive, and non-transitive relation, precisation is an asymmetric, irreflexive, and transitive relation. In other words, as for precisation the set of possible meanings of the result formulation is a proper subset of the set of possible meanings of the object formulation.
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Carnap (1950), p. 3 ff.
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In fact, the gate was never completed.
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On principles of legality, see Frändberg (2014) Ch. 4.
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See Subsection 7.8 above.
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Ekelöf (1958).
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The term used in Dworkin (1986), p. 17.
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Frändberg (2014), Chs. 5, 6, 7, and 8.
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The Swedish Supreme Court case NJA 1977, pp. 403 ff.
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This aspect is emphasised by Strömholm (1975), p. 596 ff.
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Frändberg, Å. (2018). Statutory Interpretation Against the Background of a General Typology of Interpretation. In: The Legal Order. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 123. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78858-6_14
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