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The basic job of the courts is to hear and decide legal disputes. In making those decisions, the courts wind up doing a lot of different things. They:

#*interpret, and develop rules for interpreting, the legislation that may apply to a dispute;,#*interpret, and develop rules for interpreting, the words in a contract that may be the subject of a dispute;,#*interpret the legal principles that may apply to a dispute; , and,#*interpret, and develop rules for interpreting, the past decisions of other judges.

Interpreting and applying legislation is one of the court's more important jobs. For example, section 16(6) of the ''Divorce Act'' says this about orders for parenting time:

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