[Taxacom] New lizard species

[Anthony Pigott]

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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Pyle
Sent: 08 June 2010 08:47
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New lizard species

...  In the legal field, it falls upon judges who are very familiar with
legal Code, and the language the Code is written in, and the contexts in
which it was written, to disambiguate alternative interpretations of meaning
in words and phrases that appear in the legal Code.  

...

Richard wrote what I was just thinking - and, of course, in most
jurisdictions, the primary tests applied by judges in interpreting possibly
ambiguous laws are the intention and purpose of the original legislators.
Seems sensible, even obvious, to me, to take the same approach in this
quasi-legal situation.

Best wishes

Anthony