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Statutory Construction & Interpretation.
Fiduciary Scholars,
This is the interpretive key to the entire canon.
Most legal error does not begin in court.
It begins in reading.
If you misread the statute,
you misapply the remedy.
Discipline requires:
• Start with the text.
• Identify defined terms.
• Apply the plain meaning.
• Read the statute as a whole.
• Let the specific control the general.
You do not extract phrases.
You do not redefine words.
You do not interpret by preference.
Codification governs.
When the language is clear
the inquiry ends.
When definitions are provided
they control.
When ambiguity exists
structure resolves it.
He who controls interpretation
controls outcome.
Study this doctrine carefully.
It governs every other doctrine we’ve built.
— Kelly Legacy Institute
Auctoritas Per Legem
Authority Through Law
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