Assertion: reasoning | /r/CapableOf | establish existing content of the law
Facets:
value: on a given issue
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: There are thus three things (at least, there may be others) which legal theorists could mean by legal reasoning: (a) reasoning to establish the existing content of the law on a given issue, (b) reasoning from the existing content of the law to the decision which a court should reach in a case involving that issue which comes before it, and (c) reasoning about the decision which a court should reach in a case, all things considered.