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The proposition that event taxonomies have a "basic" level was tested. In the first two tasks of the experiment, taxonomically related event categories were elicited. Nine taxonomies were constructed from subjects’ responses on these tasks. In the third task, subjects listed attributes for events categories from the three levels of abstraction of these taxonomies. A single, common level of abstraction (the basic level) was identified. Subjects listed significantly more attributes for basic...
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All professions are dependent to some degree on their corpus of literature. For several reasons this dependency is especially acute for the legal profession. First, a large part of legal literature is “authoritative” in a sense different from the literature of, say, medicine or history. Legal authority is binding, backed by the coercive apparatus of the state. One is compelled to be familiar with legal authority, for, in the ancient phrase, ignorance of the law is no excuse. Second, the very...
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A comparison of the 4 legal data bases available in France: CEDIJ, SYDONI, JURISDATA, and LEXIS. Details are given on each of the following points: supporting organisation; subject coverage; numbers of documents; nature of data; structure of documents; presence of thesaurus or search language; structure of data base; interrogation programmes; user assistance; and accessibility. No attempt is made to evaluate content, only aspects relating to user convenience.
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Réflexions sur le langage du droit : problèmes de langue et de style. Un article de la revue Meta, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
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" In this article I want to trace the development of the treatise tradition in the common law system, and build on an idea suggested but not fully developed by Schulz's study of the literary activity of the ancient Roman lawyers: the close relation between the forms of legal literature and lawyers' ideas of what they are doing, and of the appropriate way for jurists to behave. More radically, I shall suggest that certain literary forms are closely tied to theories about the nature of law itself, and that this is particularly true of the treatise." (extrait, p. 633)
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This paper deals primarily with computer-assisted legal research. It attempts to sketch the current state of the art, mainly in the United States and Canada, with special reference to systems oriented towards the processing of legislative data. The author suggests a checklist of the main requirements the systems of the 80's will have to answer to, in order to fulfill the growing needs of the new computer-minded generations of law graduates.
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The middle of the twentieth century marked a turning point in the history of scholarly writings on the civil law in Quibec. The emergence of a full-time teaching body in the law faculties entailed consequences of primary importance: publications gained not only in quantity, but also in quality and diversity and, in particular, the reactions of legal writers to judge-made law became frequent and substantial. The relations between legal writers and judges illustrate, here as elsewhere, the...