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Latin, meaning To interpret and harmonize laws is the best method of interpretation. … [Read more...] about INTERPRETARE ET CONCORDARE LEGES LEGIBUS EST OPTIMUS INTERPRETANDI MODUS

The branch of the U.S. Treasury that manages the application and enforcement of the tax law (the IRC) and collects tax payments from taxpayers. … [Read more...] about INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS)

Latin, meaning Such a construction is to be made that the thing may have effect rather than it should fail. … [Read more...] about INTERPRETATIO FIENDA EST UT RES MAGIS VALEAT QUAM PEREAT

That which pertains to intercourse between nations. International law is that which regulates the intercourse between, or the relative rights of nations. … [Read more...] about INTERNATIONAL

The explication of a law, agreement, will, or other instrument, which appears obscure or ambiguous. 2. The object of interpretation is to find out or collect the intention of the maker of the instrument, either from his own words, or from other conjectures, or both. It may then be divided into three sorts, according to the different means it makes use of for obtaining its end. … [Read more...] about INTERPRETATION