Timeline for Delaware County Code Case Verbiage

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Oct 21, 2016 at 20:19	comment	added	ohwilleke		I am disagreeing with the concept that "and" or "or" have well defined meanings out of a particular context. There is no universal meaning of these words in all places at all times. That isn't how you interpret statutes. You look at the overall purpose of the statute and the context of what it is specifically trying to say.
Oct 21, 2016 at 8:34	comment	added	user4657		The other answer says generally the same things, in more detail and explication. What exactly ate you disagreeing with, besides the fact that I haven't written an essay to explain every single aspect that might be relevant?
Oct 21, 2016 at 8:19	comment	added	ohwilleke		Law is not math. Words in law do not have fixed universal meanings. I get it, I was math major before I became a lawyer. But, this simply isn't how statutes and contracts are interpreted. The other answer to this question is a pretty accurate description of how the analysis is done.
Oct 21, 2016 at 7:10	comment	added	user4657		What it could easily hold isn't important; habitability laws that mandate minimum volumes or areas, or maximum occupancy based on those, would be pointless otherwise. California has the 20×10 minimum, for example (either strongly recommended or required, can't remember which).
Oct 21, 2016 at 7:02	comment	added	ohwilleke		A perfectly reasonable view, but probably incorrect. As jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. put it, "The life of the law has not been logic. It has been experience." In practice, this provision would probably interpreted to bar both garages that are more than 900 feet and also garages with more than four cars. A 900 square foot garage could easily hold six cars as a 150 square feet is actually a pretty decent sized parking space.
Oct 20, 2016 at 22:40	history	answered	user4657	CC BY-SA 3.0