By

Prof. Deep Kapadia

Tell meWhen have you used word logic?What do you do with word logic?What do you think is the meaning

of word logic?Is it reasoning or merely giving

ideas?Why do you (lawyers) need to learn

logic?

Before understanding Argument one must understand in general meaning of word

LAW

Law says the judge as he looks down his noseSpeaking most clearly and most severely

Law is as I’ve told you beforeLaw is as you know I suppose

Law is but let me explain it once more,Law is THE LAW

-W.H. Auden“Law Like Love”

Law is clearly Device for social cultureLaw is to protect all the beingsLaw is to organize a morality in societyLaw is to preserve ethics and humanityLaw that is not just seems to be no law at all

And very ImportantLaw is Consider to be ‘NOBLEST PROFESSION’

So Please Adhere ToTruth and only Good NESS

Salus Populi est Suprema lexi.e. regard for the public welfare is the highest law

LAWYERS are graced one as they have been bestowed and look upon by society as one who are saviour and protector from evil and one who can help us to get ‘Justice’. Task of Lawyer is to resolve dispute

Please keep this points in mind, before you work on any case

Definition of ‘Law’ by St. Thomas Aquinas-Law is nothing else than an ordinance of reason

for the common good, promulgated by him who has the care of the community… human law has the nature of law in so far as it partakes of right reason… So far as it deviates from reason, it is called an unjust law and has the nature, not of law, but of violence… such are acts of violence rather than laws because, as St. Augustine says, a law that is not just seems to be no law at all.

-The Essence of Law (615)

UBI EADEM RATIO IBI IDEM JUSi.e.

LIKE REASON DOTH MAKES LIKE LAW

LAW consists, ‘not in particular instances and precedents, but in, the reason of the law and

ubi eadem ratio ibi idem jus’- Maxims

Broom

Reason is the life of law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificial perfection of

reason, gotten by long study, observation and experience and not of every man’s natural

reason.’

It is said ahead

CESSANTE RATIO LEGIS CESSAT IPSA LEXi.e.

REASON IS THE SOUL OF THE LAW, AND WHEN THE REASON OF ANY PARTICULAR LAW CEASES, SO DOES THE LAW ITSELF

The law is unknown to him that knoweth not the reason thereof, and that the known certainty of the

law is the safety of all-Lord Coke

What more I should say in the glory of relation of law and logic, mind well Logic is nothing else but systematic layout of reason.

And it proves the importance of knowing logical to Lawyers… and majorly it plays in the art of argumentation whether it is civil or criminal or examination or cross-examination.

Logic furnishes principles and methods for distinguishing between correct and incorrect reasoning