A Research for the contents of court's decision recorded in documents, and an analyses of the logic behind the legal thinking for the reasoning or justification of decisions in medieval Japan
Project/Area Number |
19530014
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Fundamental law
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Research Institution | Doshisha University |
Principal Investigator |
NISHIMURA Yasuhiro Doshisha University, 法学部, 教授 (90274414)
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Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
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Keywords | 日本中世法 / 裁判 / 下知状 / 判決 / 判決理由 / 裁判規範 / 法規範 / 召文 / 問状 / 鎌倉幕府 / 裁許状 / 判決内容 / 訴陳状 / 書面審理手続 / 対決手続 / 下知 / 和与 / 所務沙汰 / 日本中世 / 法の論理 / 法の適用 / 訴訟手続 |
Research Abstract |
This research has pursued mainly by collecting two kinds of data, in order to analyze the ways of describing decisions issued by the courts of the Kamakura Shogunate. In this research, therefore, it is also important aspects in observing the documents that we should examine what the style of legal thinking was, and how it was worked in approaching to each judgment. Furthermore, this research has focused on and analyzed the variety of reasons applied to each decision. The data are collected from almost of all contents of decisions which we can recognize in documents remained, originally issued to a party by the court. And this research also has demonstrated the trial procedure, particularly in a case of a party's negligence of summons. It can be said that the court did not automatically give a decision in favor of a party, because of the negligence. In justice system of Kamakura Shogunate, a party of negligence would be punished by the article No.35 of Goseibai-shikimoku, which wrote it as one of fundamental norms. So, in traditional understanding of such case, the norm was automatically adopted, without careful investigation for the circumstances. This research, which has tried to analyzed the contents of decisions, however, can show that the court of Kamakura Bakufu had a principle for judgment. The principle was that an insistence of a party could be reasoned correctly, only when obvious fact presented to the court by a party as a certain proof, whose form was a correct document style, and which also included a sort of custom law or one of laws issued by Kamakura Shogunate.
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Research Products
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