Statute Law Corpus

Context:
- It can (typically) include Title-Cased Statutes that have been passed by national or regional legislatures, covering a wide range of legal topics.
- It can (often) be used to conduct in-depth legal analysis and reference specific laws.
- It can range from being a National Statute Law Corpus to being a Regional Statute Law Corpus.
- It can (often) be maintained by Government Agencies or Legal Publishers.
- It can (often) be accessed through digital platforms or physical volumes, depending on the jurisdiction and the publisher.
- It can include Statute Law Annotations and Statute Law Commentaries.
- It can (often) serve as a primary source for legal precedents and case law research.
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Example(s):
- a United States Code Corpus that showcases a comprehensive collection of federal statutes in the United States.
- a Statutes of Canada Corpus that demonstrates the compilation of all Canadian federal laws.
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Counter-Example(s):
- Case Law Corpus, which focuses on judicial decisions rather than statutory laws.
- Regulatory Code Corpus, which compiles regulations issued by governmental agencies rather than legislatively enacted statutes.
See: Legal Corpus, Case Law Corpus, Regulatory Code Collection

References

(Goebel et al., 2024) ⇒ Randy Goebel, Yoshinobu Kano, Mi-Young Kim, Juliano Rabelo, Ken Satoh, and Masaharu Yoshioka. (2024). “Overview of Benchmark Datasets and Methods for the Legal Information Extraction/Entailment Competition (COLIEE) 2024.” In: JSAI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence. doi:10.1007/978-981-97-3076-6_8