Legal syllogism is a legal concept concerning the law and its application, specifically a form of argument based on deductive reasoning and seeking to establish whether a specified act is lawful.
If properly plead, every legal action seeking redress of a wrong or enforcement of a right is "a syllogism of which the major premise is the proposition of law involved, the minor premise is the proposition of fact, and the judgment the conclusion.
"[2][3] More broadly, many sources suggest that every good legal argument is cast in the form of a syllogism.
[3][4][5] Fundamentally, the syllogism may be reduced to a three step process: 1.
[3] This model is sufficiently broad so that it may be applied in many different nations and legal systems.