The Exception Proves the Rule

Legal rules admit of exceptions; indeed, it has been a legal maxim that one can infer the existence of a rule from exceptions that are made to it. Hart claims that the exceptions do not admit of exhaustive statement (a form of legal particularism) but that nonetheless rules can bind. This paper d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holton, Richard
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Pubishers 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61992
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8116-2639