Modeling Legal Rules

Common law rules admit of exceptions. When a court, especially a higher court, finds that the routine application of a rule would result in an injustice, it is likely to distinguish. It will concede that yes, the case does appear to fall under the rule as it is currently understood; but will insi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holton, Richard
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Book chapter
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71809
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