Civil Law Domain Ontology

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Civil Law Domain Ontology — v1.0
Kireth Semantic Library
Source: https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/domain-ontologies/legal-government-domains/civil-law-domain-ontology.html
Status: Domain-based ontology draft; source page content not independently verified.

FLOW "CivilLawDomainOntology" v1.0

DOMAIN:
  id: civil_law
  label: Civil Law Domain Ontology
  parent: Legal and Government Domains
  scope: Civil rights, duties, disputes, remedies and procedures across jurisdictions.
  distinction: Civil law here refers to non-criminal legal disputes; civil-law legal systems are a separate comparative-law concept.

ENTITIES:
  LegalPerson: {subtypes: [NaturalPerson, LegalEntity]}
  Party: {roles: [Claimant, Defendant, Applicant, Respondent, ThirdParty]}
  Jurisdiction: {fields: [territory, legal_system, court_competence]}
  LegalRule: {subtypes: [Statute, Regulation, CaseLaw, Custom]}
  CivilClaim: {fields: [cause_of_action, filing_date, status, jurisdiction]}
  CivilObligation: {fields: [debtor, creditor, source, performance_due]}
  CivilRight: {fields: [holder, scope, limitations]}
  Contract: {fields: [parties, terms, governing_law]}
  Tort: {fields: [conduct, duty, breach, causation, harm]}
  PropertyInterest: {fields: [holder, asset, interest_type]}
  Evidence: {fields: [source, admissibility, relevance, reliability]}
  Court: {fields: [jurisdiction, level, competence]}
  Proceeding: {fields: [claim, parties, procedural_stage]}
  Judgment: {fields: [court, decision_date, operative_order, appeal_status]}
  Remedy: {subtypes: [Damages, Injunction, Declaration, SpecificPerformance, Restitution]}
  LimitationPeriod: {fields: [trigger, duration, exceptions, jurisdiction]}
  Settlement: {fields: [parties, terms, enforceability]}

RELATIONSHIPS:
  ASSERTS_CLAIM(Party, CivilClaim)
  BROUGHT_AGAINST(CivilClaim, Party)
  GOVERNED_BY(CivilClaim, LegalRule)
  FALLS_WITHIN(CivilClaim, Jurisdiction)
  HEARD_BY(Proceeding, Court)
  SUPPORTED_BY(CivilClaim, Evidence)
  CONTESTED_BY(CivilClaim, Evidence)
  OWES_DUTY_TO(LegalPerson, LegalPerson)
  BREACHES(CivilClaim, CivilObligation)
  CONCERNS_PROPERTY(CivilClaim, PropertyInterest)
  SEEKS_REMEDY(CivilClaim, Remedy)
  RESOLVED_BY(CivilClaim, Judgment)
  SETTLED_BY(CivilClaim, Settlement)
  SUBJECT_TO_LIMITATION(CivilClaim, LimitationPeriod)
  APPEALS(Party, Judgment)

INFERENCE_RULES:
  R1: IF claim.jurisdiction is unknown THEN flag JURISDICTION_UNRESOLVED.
  R2: IF relevant_rule is not verified for jurisdiction and effective_date THEN flag LAW_VERIFICATION_REQUIRED.
  R3: IF claim requires elements AND any element lacks evidence THEN flag ELEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED; do not infer liability.
  R4: IF limitation trigger and applicable exceptions are unknown THEN limitation_status = INDETERMINATE.
  R5: IF judgment is under appeal THEN mark finality = UNCONFIRMED unless jurisdiction-specific rule confirms otherwise.
  R6: IF remedy requested THEN test jurisdictional availability and procedural prerequisites; do not assume entitlement.
  R7: IF evidence conflicts THEN retain competing propositions and source provenance rather than collapsing to one fact.
  R8: IF settlement exists THEN distinguish negotiated terms from judicial findings.

CONFIDENCE:
  range: [0.0, 1.0]
  dimensions: [source_reliability, jurisdiction_match, temporal_validity, evidential_support, interpretation_uncertainty]
  policy: Confidence expresses epistemic support, not probability of legal success.

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE:
  exact: [Claimant|Plaintiff (only where local procedural terminology supports equivalence)]
  contextual: [CivilAction|CivilProceeding, Damages|MonetaryCompensation]
  non_equivalent: [CivilLiability|CriminalGuilt, Allegation|FindingOfFact, Settlement|Judgment, CivilLawTradition|CivilLitigation]

PROVENANCE:
  required: [source_id, source_type, issuing_authority, jurisdiction, publication_date, accessed_date, version]
  preserve: [original_text, citations, effective_date, amendments, conflicting_authorities]

FLOW_HASH:
  algorithm: SHA-256
  input: canonical_serialisation(ontology_version, entities, relationships, rules, provenance_schema)
  note: Compute hash at publication; no hash is fabricated in this draft.

UPDATE_MODEL:
  triggers: [legislation_change, new_binding_precedent, procedural_rule_change, jurisdiction_change, correction]
  actions: [revalidate_sources, version_rules, recalculate_confidence, recompute_flow_hash, retain_history]

AI_CONSUMPTION:
  output: [typed_entities, typed_relationships, rule_results, confidence, provenance, uncertainty_flags]
  constraints: [jurisdiction_aware, date_aware, evidence_grounded, no_automatic_liability_determination, human_review_for_legal_conclusions]
  purpose: Research, classification, semantic retrieval and explainable legal knowledge representation; not legal advice.

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