@daringfireball (2) Source: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-law-journal/in-print/volume-107/volume-107-issue-1-oct-2018/the-letter-and-the-spirit-a-unified-theory-of-originalism/
Under European Law, it‘s a *required technique* for European Courts to interpret the law: „The ECJ mainly uses the grammatical, systematic and purposive methods of interpretation.“ (whereas grammatical equivaletes to the „letter of the law“ interpretation, and „systematic and purposive“ to „spirit of the law“ (i.e. was intended)) (…)