An Actual Application of an Analogical Legal Reasoning System Dependent on Legal Purposes
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چکیده
We have already developed a legal reasoning system by analogy based on a framework, called Goal-Dependent Abstraction (GDA), to detect similarities dependent on given goals. According to the framework, two legal concepts are regarded as similar ones, provided they share the same explanation of a legal purpose as the goal to be explained. Consequently, we can automatically capture similarities between the premises of legal rules and cases in inquiry, depending on the purposes of legal rules. In this article, we further show that this approach works well in an actual case for which Japanese Supreme Court has analogically applied the Article 93 of the Civil Code of Japan, which prescribes mental reservations, to an act as an agent. Furthermore, to illustrate our reasoning procedure, we also demonstrate the overview and GUI of our legal reasoning system adopting an object-oriented logic programming language to describe legal knowledge.
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