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Two Kinds of Laws: Clear and Ambiguous

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From David Daube, the renowned scholar of biblical and Roman law, who was a professor at Oxford and Berkeley among other places:

"As regards interpretation, the author of the Rhetoric to Alexander distinguishes between laws which are clear and laws which are ambiguous. I have never come across any of the former kind."

(The quote is from Daube's collected works, volume 4, page 186.)

Samuel Bray is the John N. Matthews Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School.