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NetPleadings Community Legal Precedents
This repository contains open source legal precedents for lawyers, law firms, and other legal service providers. It is intended to be forum for public discussion, version tracking, and dissemination of knowledge.
The files in this repository are used by the Conductor platform, and conforms to a technical style that is suitable specifically for that purpose. There is, nonetheless, adequate information to repurpose the information for other uses.
Technical Details
The files in this repository are set out according to jurisdiction, with the top-level directories based on the ISO-3166-1 alpha 2 country codes. Each sub-directory represents a sub-jurisdiction or legal area of the country.
Sub-jurisdictions may include, for example ca/on/corp
for Canada, Ontario, Corporate. Sub-jurisdictions
may also be divided by .
, so ca/on.corp
is equivalent to ca/on/corp
.
Each sub-directory contains a manifest.yaml
that indicates the files that will be included.
Products
Every .yaml
file can specify one or more models
, which represent end-products of varying types. The precedents
here generally include model types PackageView
and SnippetView
(each of which becomes a package
or snippet
) in
Conductor, respectively — being sets of documents and sets of text that are re-used.
Source
Source files are stored in a .YAML
format.
Compiled
The latest precedents are available in the JSON format at https://netpleadings.github.io/community/latest.json.
Other formats
The files in this system can be compiled into other formats such as plain text, Markdown, Word, and otherwise, however no work has yet been done towards that.
Contributing
Please open an issue if there are items that you would like to see added to this repository.
You can contribute to this repository by forking it and making a pull request. There are many guides on how to get started contributing via GitHub, but the basic steps are:
- For this reposiory
- Make the changes to your copy
- Create a pull request
License
NetPleadings Community Legal Precedents by NetPleadings Inc. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://github.com/NetPleadings/community/blob/master/LICENSE.md.