Abstract
Writing a contract of a specific content is a ground for purchase, purchase is a ground for ownership, ownership is a ground for power to dispose. Also power to dispose is a consequence of ownership, ownership is a consequence of purchase. etc. The paper presents a continuation of the authors’ previous algebraic representation on ground - consequence chains in normative systems.The paper analyzes different kinds of “implicative closeness” between grounds and consequences in chains of legal concepts, in particular combinations of “weakest ground”, “strongest consequence” and “minimal joining”. The idea of a concept’s being intermediate between concepts of two different sorts is captured by the technical notion of “intervenient”, defined in terms of weakest ground and strongest consequence. A legal example concerning grounds and consequences of “ownership” and “trust” is used to illustrate the application of the formal theory.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Aristotle.: The Nichomachean Ethics, transl. by Ross, W. D., Book V, http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.5.v.html
Grossi, D.: Designing Invisible Handcuffs. Formal Investigations in Institutions and Organizations for Multi-agent Systems. SIKS Dissertation Series No. 2007-16 (2007)
Lindahl, L.: Position and Change. A Study in Law and Logic. Reidel, Dordrecht (1977)
Lindahl, L.: Deduction and Justification in the Law: The Role of Legal Terms and Concepts. Ratio Juris 17, 182–202 (2004)
Lindahl, L., Odelstad, J.: Intermediate Concepts as Couplings of Conceptual Structures. In: Prakken, H., McNamara, P. (eds.) Norms, Logics and Informations Systems. New Studies on Deontic Logic and Computer Science. IOS Press, Amsterdam (1999)
Lindahl, L., Odelstad, J.: An Algebraic Analysis of Normative Systems. Ratio Juris 13, 261–278 (2000)
Lindahl, L., Odelstad, J.: Normative Systems and Their Revision: An Algebraic Approach. Artificial Intelligence and Law 11, 81–104 (2003)
Lindahl, L., Odelstad, J.: Normative Positions within an Algebraic Approach to Normative Systems. Journal Of Applied Logic 2, 63–91 (2004)
Lindahl, L., Odelstad, J.: Intermediate Concepts in Normative Systems. In: Goble, L., Meyer, J.-J.C. (eds.) DEON 2006. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 4048. Springer, Heidelberg (2006a)
Lindahl, L., Odelstad, J.: Open and Closed Intermediaries in Normative Systems. In: van Engers, T.M. (ed.) Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Jurix 2006). IOS Press, Amsterdam (2006b)
Lindahl, L., Odelstad, J.: Intermediaries and Intervenients in Normative Systems. Journal of Applied Logic (June 29, 2007); (Article in Press, Corrected Proof), doi:10.1016/j.jal.2007.06.010
Odelstad, J., Lindahl, L.: The Role of Connections as Minimal Norms in Normative Systems. In: Bench-Capon, T., Daskalopulu, A., Winkels, R. (eds.) Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. IOS Press, Amsterdam (2002)
Sartor, G.: The Nature of Legal Concepts: Inferential Nodes or Ontological Categories? EUI working paper LAW No. 2007/08. European University Institute. Department of Law (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lindahl, L., Odelstad, J. (2008). Strata of Intervenient Concepts in Normative Systems. In: van der Meyden, R., van der Torre, L. (eds) Deontic Logic in Computer Science. DEON 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5076. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70525-3_16
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70525-3_16
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-70524-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-70525-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)