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Originally Posted by tompe
Just because you think it should work so does not mean that the existing different law systems all work that way. Different law systems works in fundamentally different way.
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True. But in reading some of the posts here it is interesting how many similarities there are. It appears generally that neither civil law nor common law allows the blatant disregard of plain words in favour of an intention not manifest on the face of the statute concerned.