The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law 2012
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572120.013.0010
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Ambiguity And Vagueness In Legal Interpretation

Abstract: Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados. Resumo A vagueza e a ambiguidade são problemas-chave nas teorias da interpretação jurídica. O artigo primeiramente delimita a vagueza e a ambiguidade e coloca essa questão em relação com fenômenos similares como a generalidade das expressões jurídicas (i). A vagueza se mostra um fenômeno multifa… Show more

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“…Vagueness has received attention by a number of authors (Varzi 2001, Poscher 2012, Égré and Klinedinst 2011, who proposed different classification models. On the basis of Francis J.…”
Section: Vaguenessmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Vagueness has received attention by a number of authors (Varzi 2001, Poscher 2012, Égré and Klinedinst 2011, who proposed different classification models. On the basis of Francis J.…”
Section: Vaguenessmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the basis of Francis J. Pelletier and István Berkeley's (1999), Aschille C. Varzi's (2001), and Ralf Poscher's (2012) classifications, the phenomenon may be discerned in three types: lexical, semantic and pragmatic, and higher-order vagueness.…”
Section: Vaguenessmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another reason for divergency in drafting behaviour concerns the degree of exactness or vagueness with which legal drafters phrase their texts, an issue debated in various studies (cf., for example, Endicott, 2000;Bhatia et al, 2005;Poscher, 2012). This divergency depends on the contrasting requirements of an ideal legal text: on the one hand, it needs to be maximally determinate and precise, so that there should be no doubt about what is meant by its words whereas, on the other, it needs to cover every relevant situation, i.e., it has to be all-inclusive.…”
Section: Cultural Constraints On Legislative Draftingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another reason for divergency in drafting behaviour concerns the degree of exactness or vagueness with which legal drafters phrase their texts, an issue debated in various studies (cf., for example, Endicott, 2000;Bhatia et al, 2005;Poscher, 2012). This divergency depends on the contrasting requirements of an ideal legal text: on the one hand, it needs to be maximally determinate and precise, so that there should be no doubt about what is meant by its words whereas, on the other, it needs to cover every relevant situation, i.e., it has to be all-inclusive.…”
Section: Cultural Constraints On Legislative Draftingmentioning
confidence: 99%