Tag: Index

  • Linked Data Principles to Legal Information

    Linked Data and Law (Legal Information) Note: see the Encyclopedia’ Linked Data project at Lawi Metadata Bob DuCharme discussed the value of linked data in United States law. DuCharme notes, “At a recent W3C Government Linked Data Working Group working group meeting, I started thinking more about the role in linked data of laws that…

  • Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research

    Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic, in “Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma”(42 Stan. L. Rev. 207, 214 (1989)), wrote that “Some scholars note that the inability of lawyers to follow the development of the law either nationally or…

  • Legal Thesaurus

    A legal Thesaurus is an effective tool for the organization of legal materials. The UNCITRAL Thesaurus on the CISG,[1] provides a helpful outline of the contents of each Article of the Sales Convention. The Roget’s Thesaurus provides a list of synonyms. But they are not a controlled vocabulary, containing all the possible preferred terms and…

  • Index to the Revised Statutes of Canada

    Index to the Revised Statutes of Canada the Revised Statutes of Canada 1985 is made up of eight volumes, a further five volumes of supplements published since 1985, and one volume of appendices. There is also a single-volume index to the Revised Statutes of Canada, published in 1991. (1) While the index is not up-to-date,…

  • United Kingdom Index to the Statutes

    United Kingdom Index to the Statutes An official index to United Kingdom legislation was produced in that jurisdiction from 1870 until 1991. (1) The most recent edition of the United Kingdom Stationery office produced Index to the Statutes covers the legislation issued during the period to 31 december 1990. The Stationery office’s website indicates that…

  • United States Code Annotated

    United States Code Annotated United States Code Annotated, Index United States Code Annotated is is a commercially produced subject index to the federal Acts of the United States of America, officialy called the General Index of the United States Code Annotated (USCA). The USCA is an unofficial version of the code and is arranged in…

  • Iowa Subject Index

    Iowa Subject Index Many of the states in the United States of America produce indexes to their Acts or state codes. There are also a large number of commercially produced indexes. The State of Iowa has an impressive subject index. To name just two other examples in addition to Iowa Subject Index and United States…

  • Subject Index to South Australian Legislation

    Subject Index to South Australian Legislation The Subject Index to South Australian Legislation was produced and is maintained as part of a collaborative effort by the members of the Australian law librarians’ Group Incorporated (South Australia division) (AllG) and is available online at no cost to users.(1) It is very similar to the Victorian index.…

  • Index to Subject Matter of Victorian Legislation

    Index to Subject Matter of Victorian Legislation (Australia) The Index to the Subject Matter of Victorian Legislation is a general subject guide to Victorian Acts and Statutory Rules that has been published annually since 1999. (1) The index is currently available in hard copy only. Fewer than 250 copies are published each year. There has…

  • Index volume of the 1931 NZ Reprint

    Index volume of the 1931 New Zealand Reprint The most comprehensive index of Acts ever compiled in New Zealand was the one prepared as part of the 1931 reprint of legislation.(1) Volume 9 of the reprint includes alphabetical and chronological tables of Acts and a table of cases, but is mostly taken up with a…

  • Index to the 1908 NZ Consolidated Statutes

    Index to the 1908 New Zealand Consolidated Statutes A revision of the New Zealand Statute Book was completed in 1908, resulting in the Consolidated Statutes of New Zealand 1908.(1) the Consolidated Statutes were accompanied by a volume comprising an historical table of legislation and an alphabetical index.(2) The index spans 172 pages of the 376…

  • Curnin’s Index

    Curnin’s Index Curnin’s index (1877-1933) John Curnin was the Clerk of the New Zealand legislative Council from 1861 to 1865, and was a law draftsman from 1877. He held the office, then non-statutory, of New Zealand Compiler of Statutes for some time before his death in 1904. He is famously associated with a periodical Index…

  • Badger's General index

    Badger’s General Index In 1885 Wilfred Badger published his Statutes of New Zealand, 1842 1884. He compiled 511 Acts and ordinances in two volumes, a total of 1,782 pages. the volumes contain a general index of 52 pages of two columns. It is quite detailed. Badger explained the value of the index in his preface:…

  • Henry Smythies' Analytical Digest

    Henry Smythies’ analytical digest (1863) In 1863, an Auckland (New Zealand) lawyer, Henry Smythies, compiled An Analytical Digest of the Laws of New Zealand. the digest describes in outline form the laws of New Zealand in force in 1862, comprised in: Acts of the Imperial Parliament relating to New Zealand; ordinances of the legislative Council;…