![]() ![]() It shows that the rule has two enduringly useful functions: guiding an interpreter to a stopping point for statutory language that can be given a broader or narrower scope, and helping the interpreter prevent clever evasions of the statute. ![]() ![]() This Article reconsiders the mischief rule. But the rule is widely misunderstood, both by those inclined to love it and those inclined to hate it. Justice Scalia rejected the mischief rule. The mischief rule has been associated with Blackstone’s appeal to a statute’s “reason and spirit” and with Hart-and-Sacks-style purposivism. The mischief rule tells an interpreter to read a statute in light of the “mischief” or “evil”-the problem that prompted the statute. ![]()
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