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Originally Posted by darryl
It is, of course, a balancing act. Complete inflexibility is bad, but total flexibility is as bad or worse. I think the law in Common Law jurisdictions in this regard is, though not perfect, pretty good. It would not IMHO be good government or good law to disregard the plain meaning of leglslation to give effect to some intention to be found not in the wording of the law but in other places and stated no doubt with even less precision.
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Why with less precision? In other places the intention and reasoning is stated.
To take the current example. Even if the wording of the law said "free delivery" if you are allowed to make non-literal interpretations it is obvious that one cent would be considered to fall under this law since it is virtually free and falls under the category the law was intended to cover.