How should judges decide which linguistic canons to apply in interpreting statutes? One important answer looks the inside of legislative process: Follow rules that lawmakers contemplate. A different answer, based on “ordinary meaning” doctrine, outside: would guide an ordinary person’s understanding legal text. Empirical scholars have studied statutory interpretation from inside—revealing what ...

This study set out to document the prevalence and predictors of sexual intercourse with persons below the age of consent (statutory rape) and outright sex without consent (rape) among out-of-school adolescents in an urban slum in Lagos, Nigeria. Data gathered from a survey of 480 participants were employed. About 14% and 35% of the participants had been victims of rape and statutory rape respec...

In 1993, large quantities of ammunition were moved through a number of commercial ports in the UK following the implementation of various military drawdown programs. These movements were subject to the normal statutory controls governing the handling of explosives in the UK, and the drawdown programs for the year were completed without incident. The statutory controls have been designed both to...