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| When the young legal is confronted with an instrument, whether statutory or contractual, she must bring with her some keys, codexes, tools and techniques. She will need these to extract from a morass of impenetrable [[vebriage]] an optimal course of action for her [[client]]. These we now call the [[canons of interpretation]]. They originated in the parsing of statutes, but they were so useful even commercial lawyers desirous of getting out the door before closing time soon glommed on to the fact that the same rules of engagement ought to apply to private as well as public charters of action.
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| *[[{{{1}}} interpretation]] | | *[[Statutory interpretation]] |
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| *[[Noscitur a sociis]] | | *[[Noscitur a sociis]] |