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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Case in Point, My Wasted Time

Just for lawyers: Which Canon of Statutory Construction are You?
brought to you by Quizilla?

You are "Noscitur a socii"! You look to

neighboring words to shed light on the

meaning of ambiguous words. You're a

sociable canon, and always look at everything

in context. However, you're useless by

yourself.





Hat tip to the Volokh Conspiracy (I'm flattered to learn that I am the same canon as his eminence Eugene Volokh; of course, so are 23% of quiz takers at last count). And I tag Emily, Michael, and the folks over at Bloodless (honorary Esquires).

2 Comments:

Blogger emily said...

rule of lenity. oh yeah.

http://throckmorton.blogspot.com/2006/01/tagged.html

9:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am "the Golden Rule."

You are the Golden Rule! You presume that the legislature would not want to apply the statute to achieve an unreasonable or absurd result inconsistent with its purpose. It's not what's on the surface that matters for you, and you try to do what's best in any given situation. You're a bit unpredictable, but you don't mind.

2:43 PM  

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