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There's a whole area of law that governs statutory interpretation, speaking generally a judge will, if there isn't precedent, apply a meaning to the statute that makes the clause in question consistent with the rest of the statute which usually clears it up.

Judges in alot of places also have the right to reference the speeches, declarations and the like made by the legislature to attempt to work out what they meant to say.

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