1.6 Importance of Interpretation

1. The courts' duty: the judge cannot refuse to decide (the non-liquet bar — Jurisprudence's face) — interpretation is the refusal's alternative. 2. The gap between text and life: no draftsmen foresee everything; the words meet facts the authors never imagined. 3. The rights' protection: the interpretation's outcomes decide liberty, property and status. 4. The legislature-court dialogue: the interpretations identify the gaps the amendments then fill. 5. The law's certainty: the settled interpretation (the precedent of Art 128's world) is the law's predictability. 6. Nepal's own need: the codes' (2074 family) freshness, the constitution's newness — the interpretive era the Nepali courts are living.