Timeline for How could a society that emphasises spirit of a law over loopholes develop a legal system
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 31, 2017 at 12:42 | comment | added | CR Drost | @Mathmagician crap, I don't even think that's an issue of counting but of proportion; if the odds ratio is 7:1 then you can only get a maximum of 4+1/7. Hm. | |
| Aug 31, 2017 at 6:19 | comment | added | Mathmagician | BTW, if you have 4 stars from 70 reviews, that's 280 stars total, but 4.5 from 80 is 360... so the 10 family members contributed 80 stars? is this a 10 star system? | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 14:00 | comment | added | supercat | ...to hear the case should invent law that other judges should then follow, but rather to have the legislature say what the law should mean. | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 13:59 | comment | added | supercat | I would suggest that common practice places too much value on supposed "consistency" as an end unto itself, rather than recognizing inconsistency as a symptom of other problems. If a legislature writes a vague rule and one judge interprets it one way, and in the absence of that ruling another judge would decide find the opposite arguments more compelling in a different way, the latter judge shouldn't honor the more compelling argument in his case. If the law is so vague that such inconsistencies are a frequent problem, the proper solution is not to arbitrarily declare that the first judge... | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 22:08 | history | edited | CR Drost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The greek example.
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| Sep 8, 2015 at 20:33 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | One thing I explored which might be worth adding: a ROS naturally leads to a 2 step process of gathering information followed by declaring a verdict (and a penalty). A SOS may do both simultaneously, using the effects of its [potentially very small] actions upon the defendant (and/or the prosecutor) to help expose the right results as the proceedings move forward. | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 20:22 | history | answered | CR Drost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |