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Statutory interpretation

How do you read a statute whose subsections have been renumbered three times? Who gets to say what an ambiguous legal rule always meant? Why does a statute's commencement date sometimes land months after it passed? What does it mean when a section is repealed but everyone still cites it? Why do transitional provisions matter more than the main text of a statute? Why is the same activity handled by a statute in one country and a regulation in another? What happens when a regulation goes further than its parent statute ever authorised? Why do statutes get amended by inserting sections instead of being rewritten cleanly? What is the point of codifying scattered statutes into a single code? Can a statute be struck down for being too vague to apply? Why do the implementing rules often matter more than the statute they implement? How a common law rule gets abolished by statute but stays in the casebooks Non-retroactivity: why a new law cannot reach back and rewrite an old transaction How does a statute with no enforcement section still get enforced?

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