Comment by Brian_K_White
5 hours ago
Law is literally code, and xml in the sense that it attempts to define itself as well as it's payload, and everything you said was exactly the point.
What is a sandwich?
5 hours ago
Law is literally code, and xml in the sense that it attempts to define itself as well as it's payload, and everything you said was exactly the point.
What is a sandwich?
> Law is literally code
Only the legislated part of law is codified. In our American common law system, case law is, by definition, uncodified. So what judges are doing, is taking the codified legislation, and applying case law decisions in layers on top, to reach a final decision.