Tokens: Judicial
decisions
are
rendered
through
a
logical
syllogism
(
or
,
in
the
common
-
law
tradition
,
through
stare
decisis
analogy
)
in
which
the
judge
selects
a
major
premise
(
the
norm
or
the
applicable
case
)
depending
on
how
he
or
she
initially
perceives
the
facts
.
Thereafter
,
in
a
process
which
the
French
fittingly
call
la
qualification
du
cas
,
the
facts
made
relevant
by
the
selected
norm
come
into
focus
.
The
selected
legally
relevant
facts
may
modify
the
previous
choice
of
the
applicable
major
premise
,
or
they
may
confirm
it
.
Once
this
dialectic
between
the
norm
and
the
facts
is
settled
,
the
subsumption
of
facts
under
the
norm
yields
a
judicial
conclusion
made
explicit
in
the
reasoning
of
the
judgment
.
If
this
reasoning
is
persuasive
on
appeal
,
the
judgment
becomes
final
.
This
finality
–
res
judicata
pro
veritate
habetur
!
–
implies
immutability
but
above
all
straight
enforceability
of
the
judgment
.
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