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2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

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

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 19530014
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Fundamental law
Research InstitutionDoshisha University

Principal Investigator

NISHIMURA Yasuhiro  Doshisha University, 法学部, 教授 (90274414)

Project Period (FY) 2007 – 2009
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
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.

  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2009

All Journal Article (2 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 書評岩元修一『初期室町幕府訴訟制度の研究』(吉川弘文館、2007年)2009

    • Author(s)
      西村安博
    • Journal Title

      (法制史学会編『法制史研究』 第58号

      Pages: 203-212

  • [Journal Article] 鎌倉幕府の裁判における問状・召文に関する覚え書き-その理解の現状と今後の課題-2009

    • Author(s)
      西村安博
    • Journal Title

      (同志社法学会編『同志社法学』 第60巻第7号

      Pages: 965-1048

  • [Book] HBBシリーズ史料で読む日本法史2009

    • Author(s)
      村上一博・西村安博編
    • Total Pages
      301
    • Publisher
      法律文化社

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Published: 2011-06-18   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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