Legal Document

Context:
- It can (typically) contain Legal Clauses.
- It can (often) be written in Legalese.
- It can be proofread by a Legal Document Proofreading System.
- It can be a part of a Legal Corpus.
- It can range from being an English Legal Document, Japanese Document, ..., based on the document language.
- It can be subject to strict Regulatory Compliance depending on its nature and the jurisdictions involved.
- It can range from being highly standardized forms, such as those used in real estate transactions, to highly bespoke agreements tailored for complex corporate mergers.
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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 Will, which details the distribution of a person's estate to their heirs after death.
- a 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.
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Biomedical Text.
- a News Article.
- an Academic Paper, such as a Computer Science research paper.
See: Notarized Document, Evidence.

References

(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. ...