Class: LegalDocument

A legal document is a formally executed written document that can be formally attributed to its author, records and formally expresses a legally enforceable act, process, or contractual duty, obligation, or right, and therefore evidences that act, process, or agreement.

URI: sio:LegalDocument

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Parents

  • is_a: Document - A document is a bounded physical or digital representation of a body of information designed with the capacity (and usually intent) to communicate.

Children

  • Bill - A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature.
  • Brief - A brief is a written legal document used in various legal adversarial systems that is presented to a court arguing why one party to a particular case should prevail.
  • Legislation - A legal document proposing or enacting a law or a group of laws.
  • Patent - A patent is an information entity granted by a patent issuing authority which confers upon the patenter the sole right to make, use and sell an invention for a set period of time.
  • Statute - A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a state, city or country.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from Document:

  • hasCreator 0..1
    • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
    • Range: Entity

  • hasAttribute 0..1

    • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

    • Range: Entity

    • satisfies 0..1

    • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

    • Range: Description

    • isRelatedTo 0..1
    • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
    • Range: Entity
    • derivesInto 0..1

    • Description: a derives to b if and only if a or some part thereof is consumed in the formation of b.

    • Range: Object

    • isAnnotationOf 0..1

    • Description: is annotation of is a relation between some textual entity and the entity that it annotates.

    • Range: Entity