Deals with those rules and principles which are used to construct the correct meaning of legislative provisions to be applied in impractical situations

Is easy, quick, and mechanical; does not require excellent language skills and neither must the interpreter have a very good knowledge of the law and know where to find it

Is a mechanical exercise during which predetermined formulae, well-known maxims and careful reading will reveal the meaning of the legislative provision

Is about construing enacted law-texts with reference to and reliance on other law-texts, concretising the text to be construed to cater for the exigencies of an actual or hypothesised concrete situation