Legal Document
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A Legal Document is a domain-specific document from a legal domain.
- Context:
- It can (typically) contain Legal Clauses.
- It can (often) be written in Legalese.
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- It can range from being an English Legal Document, Japanese Legal Document, ..., based on the document language.
- It can range from being Standardized Legal Document to being a Bespoke Legal Document.
- It can range from being a Plain Legal Document to being an Annotated Legal Document.
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- It can be prepared by a Legal Document Preparation Task.
- It can be proofread by a Legal Document Proofreading System.
- It can be a part of a Legal Corpus.
- It can be subject to strict Regulatory Compliance depending on its nature and the jurisdictions involved.
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- Example(s):
- a Legal Contract, such as an employment agreement that outlines the responsibilities and rights of both the employer and the employee.
- a Legal Textbook that provides comprehensive details on certain areas of law, such as constitutional or corporate law.
- a Legal Filing, such as a lawsuit complaint or a patent application.
- a Legal Will, which details the distribution of a person's estate to their heirs after death.
- a Legal Deed, which is a document that grants ownership of property from one party to another.
- a Legal Notice, such as a cease and desist letter or eviction notice.
- a Legal Policy Document, such as Acceptable Use Policy.
- a Legal Affidavit, which is a written statement confirmed by oath for use as evidence in court.
- a Legal Memorandum, which is a document used for internal communication within a law firm or between lawyers and their clients.
- a Legal Pleading, which is a formal written statement of a party's claims or defenses in legal proceedings.
- a National Constitution, which establishes the fundamental principles, structures, and rights in a nation's governance framework.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Technical Document, such as an engineering specification, which are specific to technical domains rather than legal.
- News Articles.
- See: Notarized Document, Evidence.
References
2005
- (Biagioli et al., 2005) ⇒ C. Biagioli, E. Francesconi, Andrea Passerini, S. Montemagni, and C. Soria. (2005). “Automatic Semantics Extraction In Law Documents." In: Proceedings Of The Tenth International Conference On Artificial Intelligence and Law. (ICAIL 2005)
- QUOTE: ... The legal system usually suffers from scarce transparency which is caused by a non-systematic organization of the legal order. Law, in fact, is a normative and documentary unit of reference, hence the inability to obtain an analytical/systematic vision of a legal order itself, allowing to query a legal information system according to the content of each norm. This necessarily creates obstacles to the knowledge and upkeep of the legal order: from the uncertainty of the impact of new laws on the legal order in terms of coherency preservation, to the difficulties in norm accessing by both citizens and legal experts. ...