A Reasoning System for Legal Analogy
Makoto Haraguchi · 1996
Abstract This paper presents a reasoning system that performs analogical reasoning for legal rules under an order-sorted representation. Analogy is often used in the domain of law to derive an appropriate conclusion for a particular case not covered by any legal rule. For such a case, lawyers are considered to find a legal rule whose requirement is similar to the case with respect to some significant points. Then the rule is analogically applied to the case for which the same or a similar conclusion of the rule is derived.