historical legal text
C21846
concept
A historical legal text is a written document from a past era that records laws, legal decisions, or legal reasoning, reflecting the legal norms, institutions, and societal values of its time.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| historical legal text canonical | 5 |
| Ethiopian legal text | 1 |
| Legalist text | 1 |
| Reformation-era legal text | 1 |
| Renaissance legal text | 1 |
| early modern legal work | 1 |
| historic law | 1 |
| historical legal code | 1 |
| historical legal compilation | 1 |
| historical legal norm | 1 |
| landmark legal document | 1 |
| legendary legal code | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
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Instruction
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Input
Class: historical legal text
Generated description
A historical legal text is a written document from a past era that records laws, legal decisions, or legal reasoning, reflecting the legal norms, institutions, and societal values of its time.
Instances (16)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Church Order of Braunschweig | Reformation-era legal text |
| Undang-Undang Melaka | — |
| Brandeis Brief | landmark legal document |
| Fetha Nagast | Ethiopian legal text |
| Corpus Iuris Canonici | historical legal compilation |
| Practica nova Imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium | early modern legal work |
| Yassa legal code (attributed) | legendary legal code |
| Gutland law | — |
| Catalan Constitutions | historical legal code |
| Book of Lord Shang | Legalist text |
| Undang-Undang Kedah | — |
| Laws of Hywel Dda | — |
| Annotationes in XXIV libros Pandectarum | Renaissance legal text |
| Yuriev Day peasant departure rule | historical legal norm |
| Third Part | — |
| Kānāwai Māmalahoe | historic law |