Vagueness in law /

Vagueness in law leads to indeterminacies in legal rights and obligations in many cases. The book defends that claim and explains its implications for legal theory.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Endicott, Timothy Andrew Orville
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:	Law > Interpretation and construction. Law > Language. Vagueness (Philosophy) Droit > Interprétation. Vague (Philosophie) Law > Interpretation and construction Law > Language Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Linguistic Indeterminacy
3. Sources of Indeterminacy
4. Vagueness and Legal Theory
5. How not to Solve the Paradox of the Heap
6. The Epistemic Theory of Vagueness
7. Vagueness and Similarity
8. Vagueness and Interpretation
9. The Impossibility of the Rule of Law.