Interpretation SECOND SEMESTER- LECTURE 3 المحاضرة الثالثة-الكورس الثاني

Interpretation of law is the determination of the content of a legal rule and the definition of its elements and characteristics
All matters which come before a court whether they are human conduct, natural events, judicial decisions or legislative enactment must be interpreted so that their legal significance can be assessed.
Causes of Ambiguity of Enacted Law
1-Technical causes arising from the great difficulty to encompass all the facts of life in order to specify a governing rule for each. Thus, the law contends general rules leaving minor details aside for interpretation to decide whether they are governed by general rules or any other
2-Political or social reasons may oblige the legislature to formulate the second rules in an unclear way, leaving the abstraction of the meaning aimed at the courts. For example, when the legislature leaves to the judge the discretion to determine whether a certain crime is political or ordinary
3- Pragmatic reasons necessities interpretation as when ambiguity is due to negligence, mistake, lack of foresight
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