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词汇 example_english_plain-meaning
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plain meaning

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plain
adjective
uk /pleɪn/ us /pleɪn/
not decorated in any way; with ...
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meaning
noun
uk /ˈmiː.nɪŋ/ us /ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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Examples of plain meaning


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The social salience theory may thus seem reminiscent of the "plainmeaning" school of statutory interpretation, but there are important differences.
There are powerful reasons-for example, of democracy and fairness-for giving great weight to the plainmeaning of the constitutional text.
So enactors' intentions count even under the plainmeaning approach to statutor y interpretation.
Second, it is time-consuming and often wasteful to allow lawyers and judges to look behind the nor mal, plainmeaning of the statutor y words.
Legislative intention can instead be understood as entailed by the reasonable purpose of a statute, or the purpose that best fits the statutory plainmeaning.
First, it is generally the case that the normal, plainmeaning of words coincides with their intended meaning.
He will want to be careful not to give an answer that implies that plainmeaning has sufficient application-determining effect on its own.
Grasping the plainmeaning of directives admits of degrees.
In particular, they often argue for a 'plainmeaning' interpretation where the law is clearly ambiguous.
Matters are not noticeably simpler in the case in which the legislative intention coincides with plainmeaning.
Schamp, here as elsewhere, distorts the plainmeaning of the text.
It follows that to ignore the plainmeaning when the independent intentions exist and are incompatible is, ironically, to undermine a possible source of the legislature's legitimate authority.
He can also say that this relationship might not be very tight, so that legislative intentions can correct plainmeaning to some extent.
Third, "plainmeaning" is an elastic term that can stretch to cover both sense and reference or shrink to cover just one of them.
What about when enactors' intentions and the normal, plainmeaning of the statutor y provisions' words do not seem to align, when they seem to signal different outcomes?
This mechanism is at work if there are cases in which an independent legislative intention does not exist but the directive has a plainmeaning and plain application.
Marmor is arguing about how statutes should be interpreted in hard cases, when it is unclear from the text and plainmeaning how they apply.
Why should we be bored by these miserable word twistings of the plainmeaning of language?
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The plainmeaning is that in those competencies, which are very wide, there is a primacy over the laws of the member states.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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