purview

purview

purview (plural purviews)

1. (law) The enacting part of a statute.
2. (law) The scope of a statute.
3. Scope or range of interest or control.
   • 1788, James Madison, “The Right of the Convention to Frame such a Constitution”, in The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, page 255:

     Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?

   • 2003, Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, page 7:

     Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.

4. Range of understanding.

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Altri significati:

Scope or range of interest or control.

Range of understanding.

(law) The enacting part of a statute.

scope or range of interest or control

range of understanding

(law) The scope of a statute.

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