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		sek on March 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Docracy - Free (community curated) Legal Documents Now a semantic analysis of the text would be great. A legal document is just a combination of generic words for specific circumstances. Maybe law language is just a programming language in some way and we need coffescript for that.

rprasad on March 5, 2012 [–]

Such things exist -- they are called legal treatises.

For laymen, the equivalent would be books like the Nolo series.

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