Legal Fact – C27
Validation status: Validated
C27 Legal Fact
Subclass of:
Superclass of:
Scope note:
This class models the fact that a persistent item, during a given time-span, is perceived by human groups, a society or portions of it as having a legal quality.
The identity of the instances of this class and its subclasses is provided by the actual existence of the legal fact. This is intendend in the sense of an effective social connotation implying actual rights and obligations. The crm:E52 Time-Span of this class therefore corresponds to the actual existence of the legal fact, not a later knowledge of its existence. To capture the latter information use an instance of sdh:C7 Intentional State, the intentional content being the knowledge of the earlier existence of the legal quality.
Examples:
Google LLC (up to Sept. 1st 2017 Google Inc.) was founded on September 4th 1998 as Limited Liability Company (Wikipedia, 17 July 2022)
In First Order Logic:
- C27(x) ⇒ C30(x)
Outgoing properties:
- sdh-slc:P37 involves legal quality (is legal quality of) (0,n:1,1) → sdh-slc:C26 Legal Quality
- sdh-slc:P38 has legal fact type (is legal fact type of) (0,n:0,1) → sdh-slc:C22 Legal Quality Type
- sdh-slc:P52 is legal fact of (has legal fact) (0,n:1,1) → crm:E77 Persistent Item
- sdh-slc:P53 is in relation to (is context of) (0,n:0,1) → crm:E74 Group
Scope notes
| Show | Scope note | Language | Namespace | View details | Comments | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This class models the fact that a persistent item, during a given time-span, is perceived by human groups, a society or portions of it as having a legal quality. The identity of the instances of this class and its subclasses is provided by the actual existence of the legal fact. This is intendend in the sense of an effective social connotation implying actual rights and obligations. The crm:E52 Time-Span of this class therefore corresponds to the actual existence of the legal fact, not a later knowledge of its existence. To capture the latter information use an instance of sdh:C7 Intentional State, the intentional content being the knowledge of the earlier existence of the legal quality. | en | SDHSS Social Life ongoing | 0 | Validated |
Examples
| Show | Example | Language | Namespace | View details | Comments | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google LLC (up to Sept. 1st 2017 Google Inc.) was founded on September 4th 1998 as Limited Liability Company (Wikipedia, 17 July 2022) | en | SDHSS Social Life ongoing | 0 | Validated |
Additional notes
| Show | Notes | Type | Language | Namespace | View details | Comments | Validation |
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Identifier: C27
Official URI: https://sdhss.org/ontology/social-life/1.0/C27
OntoME URI: https://ontome.net/ontology/c807
Labels
| Label | Language | Last updated | View details | Comments | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Connotation | en | 2025-06-17 | 0 | Candidate | |
| Legal Quality (Temporal Entity) | en | 2025-06-17 | 0 | Candidate | |
| Legal Fact * | en | 2025-06-17 | 0 | Validated |
* : Standard label for this language
Namespace
| Namespace | Last updated |
|---|---|
| SDHSS Social Life Core (v1.0) | 2025-06-20 |
| SDHSS Social Life ongoing | 2021-04-16 |
Parent classes
| Class | Class namespace | Relation defined in | Justification | View details | Edit | Delete | Comments | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C30 Connotation | SDHSS Core ongoing | SDHSS Social Life ongoing |
|
0 | Validated |
Ancestor classes
| Class | Depth | Class namespace | Via |
|---|---|---|---|
| E1 CRM Entity | 6 | CIDOC CRM version 7.1.3 | C30 - C7 - C4 - C1 - E2 |
| E2 Temporal Entity | 5 | CIDOC CRM version 7.1.3 | C30 - C7 - C4 - C1 |
| C1 Entity Quality | 4 | SDHSS Core ongoing | C30 - C7 - C4 |
| Thing | 7 | OntoME internal model - active version | C30 - C7 - C4 - C1 - E2 - E1 |
| C7 Intentional State | 2 | SDHSS Core ongoing | C30 |
| C4 Intention | 3 | SDHSS Core ongoing | C30 - C7 |
Child and descendant classes
| Class | Depth | Class namespace | Via |
|---|---|---|---|
| C14 Holding of a Right or Obligation | 1 | SDHSS Social Life ongoing | |
| C13 Social Role Embodiment | 1 | SDHSS Social Life ongoing | |
| C28 Legal Location of an Actor | 1 | SDHSS Social Life ongoing |
Related classes
| Relation | Class | Class namespace | Justification | Relation defined in | View details | Edit | Delete | Comments | Validation |
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Outgoing properties (this class is domain)
| Domain | Property identifier | Range | Namespace |
|---|---|---|---|
| C27 Legal Fact | sdh-slc:P37 involves legal quality (is legal quality of) | C26 Legal Quality | SDHSS Social Life ongoing |
| C27 Legal Fact | sdh-slc:P38 has legal fact type (is legal fact type of) | C22 Legal Quality Type | SDHSS Social Life ongoing |
| C27 Legal Fact | sdh-slc:P52 is legal fact of (has legal fact) | E77 Persistent Item | SDHSS Social Life ongoing |
| C27 Legal Fact | sdh-slc:P53 is in relation to (is context of) | E74 Group | SDHSS Social Life ongoing |
Outgoing properties (inherited from ancestors)
Incoming properties (this class is range)
| Domain | Property identifier | Range | Namespace |
|---|
Incoming properties (inherited from ancestors)
Profiles using this class
| Label | Version | Status | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social and legal qualities of a person | 1 | Ongoing | 2024-06-05 |
| Groups and organizations ongoing | 1 | Ongoing | 2024-04-18 |
| Person - Legal Fact | 1 | Published | 2025-07-08 |
| Group - Legal Fact | 1 | Published | 2025-07-08 |
| test ongoing | 1 | Ongoing | 2025-10-06 |
| Group - Legal Fact ongoing | 2 | Ongoing | 2025-07-08 |
| Person - Legal Fact ongoing | 2 | Ongoing | 2025-07-08 |
| test_01 ongoing | 1 | Ongoing | 2025-10-25 |
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