There are few guiding materials for our task of statutory construction.
That is not a reasonable exercise of statutory construction.
Other than that, it was a routine exercise in statutory construction.
The court began by determining the appropriate method of statutory construction to employ.
Under traditional principles of statutory construction, these provisions have no binding legal effect.
The point is a short one of statutory construction which appears to be free from authority.
It is false as a matter of statutory construction.
The court simply applied centuries-old rules of statutory construction to make them all effective.
"There is no better key to a difficult problem of statutory construction than the law from which the challenged statute emerged."
The parties characterized the sole issue in the case as one of statutory construction.