Legal Reasoning Task
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A Legal Reasoning Task is a reasoning task to arrive at a legal judgment.
- AKA: Legal Analysis, Jurisprudential Reasoning.
- Context:
- It can be used to interpret and apply the law to specific situations.
- It can be instantiated in a Legal Reasoning Act.
- It can be used to support a Legal Decisioning Tasks such as rulings, judgments, or legal opinions.
- It can (often) rely on Legal Precedents, statutes, and legal principles.
- It can involve the application of Ethical Considerations in some jurisdictions.
- It can be influenced by Socio-Political Context, especially in areas where the law is ambiguous.
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- Example(s):
- Contract Validity Inference, such as given evidence E and relevant contractual laws.
- New Law Constitutionality Inference, such as based on existing constitutional provisions and previous court decisions.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Legal Philosophy, Statutory Interpretation, Legal Corpus Analysis.