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单词 to read down
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Law (originally Australian).
transitive. Law (originally Australian). Of a judicial authority: to interpret (a law, contract, etc.) narrowly so as to ensure it is constitutional or consistent with superior laws.
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1915 Commonw. Law Rep.: High Court Austral. 20 96 An Act of New South Wales unlimited in literal terms was read down to territorial limits.
1934 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 Nov. 19/5 If the section was read down as they held it should be, or was cut down.., then the foreign company assessed under it was in no worse position.
1980 Times of India 2 Aug. 9/5 The court rejected the plea of the attorney general for reading down article 31 C so as to conform with the ratio.
1990 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 40 4 The court is reluctant to save such legislation [sc. that appears to violate the Charter] by reading it down or otherwise rewriting it.
2017 T. T. Arvind Contract Law xiii. 378 Courts should not resort to strained constructions for the sake of reading down an exclusion clause.
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