Download or read book Understanding Common Law Legislation written by Francis Alan Roscoe Bennion and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many countries use and apply the common law. The common law world largely operates through statutes enacted by a country's democratic legislature. These statutes are drafted and interpreted according to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons evolved over centuries by common law judges. In this book, Francis Bennion distills forty years of his prolific writings on statute law and statutory interpretation to provide valuable guidance on statutory interpretation applicable to all common law jurisdictions.