Corpus Linguistics - The Ordinary Meaning Canon

Lee Nielsen: The idea that in interpreting the language of law, we start with its ordinary understanding is widely endorsed. He says this has existed long before Corpus linguistics and it's based on an understanding that we've been under delivering on promises of textualism.Nielsen: We do so to credit the meaning that those with the authority to make law may have had in mind or assumed to have had inmind when they enact the law.