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Yes, and it is forbidden, as in France what matters is the spirit of the law and not the way it is expressed. It helps keeping common sense upfront; keeping rea
by batmansmk 10y ago
Yes, and it is forbidden, as in France what matters is the spirit of the law and not the way it is expressed. It helps keeping common sense upfront; keeping readable and compact text laws.
- ptaipale 10y agoThat sounds somewhat scary. The law is not what is written, but what someone says is the "spirit" of it? The end result is going to depend on who gets to interpret the spirit, and this idea is frightening.
- derekp7 10y agoIsn't that almost how laws in the US actually work in practice? It isn't about what is written, but how it is interpreted by a judge, and possibly re-interpreted upon appeal(s)? So you have the written law, but also case law on top of it (so to figure out if you are breaking the law, you need to see how your situation compares to the possibly hundreds of somewhat similar but possibly subtly different cases that have already been decided).