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NESTOR P. MONDOK
STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION
Branch of science/jurisprudence
Establish rules, principles, 0n
Interpretation or construction
Legal text or document
Exegesis
The application of the principles and rules established
by legal hermeneutics
Application
Principle, rules, etc. of legal hermeneutics
Given case
TWO PROCESSES
INTERPRETATION CONSTRUCTION
INTRINSIC AID EXTRINSIC AID
- those found in the law itself. - those found outside the
language of the law.
INTRINSIC AID
DEFINITION- It is what you see in the law itself and
includes the following:
Title
Preamble
Words, phrases, and sentences, context
Punctuations
Heading and marginal notes
Legislative definition and interpretation
Note: The different parts of a law and their functions.
EXTRINSIC AIDS
Definition- It is what you see outside the four corners of
the law which includes the following:
Contemporaneous circumstances
Policy
Legislative history of the statute.
Contemporaneous and practical construction
Executive construction
Legislative construction
Judicial construction
Construction by the BAR and Legal Commentators
Art or process of statutory
construction
Legal hermeneutics Exegesis
principles
Law as
interpreted or
construed
P1 P2