Law and Legislation

Introductory Remarks Interpretation of written legal document is fundamental to the process and practice of law. Interpretation takes place whenever the meaning of legal documents must be determined. Lawyers and judges search for meaning using various interpretive approaches. In the below we discussed these interpretative approaches in details and discuss meaning and concept of interpretation in law and rules of interpretation in written legal documents like constitution, statutes etc.  Definition of Interpretation of Law Interpretation means the process of determining the intended meaning of  written legal document like constitution, statutes, contract, deed or will etc.  Concept of Interpretation of Law Interpretation in Law has different meaning. Indeed the word "interpret" itself must be interpreted. We can understand the concept of legal interpretation in following ways; Legal interpretation is a rational activity that gives a meaning to a legal text. Inte

Introductory Remarks During legislative process many terms we used in law sense like litigation, statue, ordinance, codification process and rules of interpretation of laws. In below we discussed about the terms codification and interpretation of laws in legislative terms and we define and elaborate these terms according to different jurists. English jurisprudence play vital role in codification and interpretation of laws in different sense. Definition of Codification of Law According to the Oxford Dictionary: " Code is a systematic collection of statutes, body of laws, so arranged as to avoid inconsistency and overlapping." This definition of codification is not exhaustive because it does not include common law and case law. In fact, codification is the systematic precess and reduction of the whole body of law into a code in the form of enacted law. Codification implies collection, compilation, methodical arrangement and reduction to coherent form the whole