
Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation
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The Importance of Interpretation
Stephen Neal: There's always what loosely we can call ambiguity, vagueness. One interpretation of this specific case is that it was just a badly drafted law. That's a weakness. It wasn't that it turns on the meaning of use, it was an imperfectly created law. He says legal prose is so convoluted and why the statement of a law is so long.
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