Legal Languages and Legal Writing
Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University · LL.B. Semester 1
Unit 1 — Characteristics of legal languages
Unit 2 — Legal terminology
Unit 3 — Terms used in civil and criminal laws
Unit 4 — Latin words and expressions; law register
Unit 5 — Rules of interpretation
- Rules of interpretation of Statutes — Literal, Mischief and Golden rule of interpretation
- Presumptions in Statutory interpretation — Statutes are valid, Statutes are territorial in operation, Presumption as to jurisdiction, Presumption against what is inconvenient or absurd, Presumption against intending injustice, Presumption against impairing obligations or permitting advantage from one's own wrong
- The Interpretation of Statutes