Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

statutory construction

1. The act or process of interpreting a statute. 2. Collectively, the principles developed by courts for interpreting statutes. - Also termed statutory interpretation. See CONSTRUCTION (2)."(T]here is not, and probably never can be, anything meriting the description of a coherent body of case-law on statutory interpretation as a whole as distinct from the interpretation of a particular statute." Rupert Cross, .Statutory Interpretation 39 (1976).