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LEGAL REASONING [6 records]

Record 1 2019-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

Constraint satisfaction networks are... commonly used to model cognition in non-strategic settings, including perception, causal reasoning, stereotype formation, analogical mapping, legal reasoning, person construal, and preferential choice...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Matemáticas
  • Inteligencia artificial
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Record 2 2018-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Logic (Philosophy)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Logique (Philosophie)
DEF

Raisonnement qui a toujours pour objet de confronter une situation de faits et des règles de droit en vue de dégager une solution juridique adéquate.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

Many writers have emphasized that if Thayer is correct in stating that relevance is a matter of logic, the concept of legal relevance ought to be rejected. In this approach there are no degrees of relevance : evidence is either relevant or not. According to the standard of legal relevance, evidence is admissible only if, as a minimum, it is logically relevant, and it also has a higher degree of probative value than would be required for ordinary reasoning.(Fed./Prov. Task Force, p. 62)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

pertinence juridique : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

Doctrines of law are systematic formulations of legal principles, rules, conceptions, and standards with respect to particular situations, or types of cases, or fields of the legal order, in logically interdependent schemes, whereby reasoning may proceed on the basis of the scheme and its logical implications. Examples are the doctrine of consideration in contract, the doctrine of personal bar, and the doctrine of "respondeat superior". The development and formulation of doctrines are the work of judges and jurists, not of legislation, which treats of particular rules only.("Oxford Companion to Law", 1980, p. 371).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

doctrine : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
DEF

... legal rule derived from, and consistent with, those parts of legal reasoning within a judgement on which the outcome of the case depends.

CONT

Ratio decidendi (Latin plural rationes decidendi) is a Latin phrase meaning "the reason" or "the rationale for the decision." The ratio decidendi is "[t]he point in a case which determines the judgment" or "the principle which the case establishes."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

La partie des motifs de décision qui concerne directement les questions qui doivent être tranchées.

OBS

ratio decidendi : terminologie employée par la Commission de l'immigration et du statut de réfugié (CISR).

Key term(s)
  • substance de la décision

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
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Record 6 1986-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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