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Re-Interpretation of Statutes

Re-Interpretation of Statutes is a re-conceptualisation (and, therefore, not a second edition) of the author's The Interpretation of Statutes (published in 1986). It deals with a conventional legal discipline (

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Publisher: LexisNexis South Africa
Publication Language: English
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ISBN/ISSN: 9780409025095
Publisher: LexisNexis South Africa

Re-Interpretation of Statutes is a re-conceptualisation (and, therefore, not a second edition) of the author's The Interpretation of Statutes (published in 1986). It deals with a conventional legal discipline (interpretation of statutes) in an unconventional manner. This has become necessary due to drastic shifts and changes in the area of statutory and constitutional interpretation over the last decade.

 
Lourens Marthinus Du Plessis

Professor Lourens Marthinus Du Plessis

Presently: Professor in the Department Public Law, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Founding director University of Stellenbosch/University of the Western Cape Research Unit for Legal and Constitutional Interpretation.

Professor in and Head of the Department of Jurisprudence at the North-West University, Potchefstroom (formerly: Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education) and professor extraordinaire of Comparative and Public International Law at the University of the Western Cape.

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Chapter 1 - Enacted law-texts: (law-)texts among (law-)texts
Chapter 2 - Statute law as source of law
Chapter 3 - The hierarchy, status and mode of citation of legislation
Chapter 4 - The genesis and demise of legislation
Chapter 5 - Theories of statutory interpretation
Chapter 6 - Canon-like waymarks for interpretation
Chapter 7 - The impact of constitutional interpretation on statutory interpretation
Chapter 8 - The presumptions
Chapter 9 - Grammatical interpretation
Chapter 10 - Systematic interpretation
Chapter 11 - Teleological interpretation
Chapter 12 - Historical interpretation
Chapter 13 - Comparative interpretation