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A Payee Who Is A Holder In Due Course May Be Subject To Personal Defenses Arising From Unauthorized Acts Or Promises By An Agent, Sarah Howard Jenkins Jan 1990

A Payee Who Is A Holder In Due Course May Be Subject To Personal Defenses Arising From Unauthorized Acts Or Promises By An Agent, Sarah Howard Jenkins

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When The Judge Is Not The Primary Official With Responsibility To Read: Agency Interpretation And The Problem Of Legislative History, Peter L. Strauss Jan 1990

When The Judge Is Not The Primary Official With Responsibility To Read: Agency Interpretation And The Problem Of Legislative History, Peter L. Strauss

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As the other pages of this journal reflect, writing about statutory interpretation commonly builds on unarticulated assumptions about the occasion for interpretation, the identity of the interpreter, and the character of the interpreted text. In this paradigm, the occasion for interpretation is a litigated case – an episode has occurred for which the application of the statute is problematic. The interpreter is a judge, a person who resolves litigation – typically episodic, typically backwards – working outside of politics, and bearing no generic responsibility (that is, responsibility outside the decision of the case before her) for the statutory regime. And …