Datasets:

PunkRockGirl
/

the-law

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The Law - Global Legal Codes Database

101,262 laws from 181 jurisdictions

Category	Count
US Federal Code	100,906 laws
Country Criminal Codes	155 countries
Constitutions	68
International Treaties	25
Historical Codes	5 (Hammurabi, Magna Carta, etc.)

Languages

20+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and more.

Database Schema

SQLite database with tables:

legal_sections - Main law text content
jurisdictions - Country/state metadata
categories - Law categorization

Usage

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import sqlite3

# Download the database
db_path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="PunkRockGirl/the-law",
    filename="legal_clean.db",
    repo_type="dataset"
)

# Connect and query
conn = sqlite3.connect(db_path)
cursor = conn.cursor()

# Example: Find murder laws
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM legal_sections WHERE heading LIKE '%Murder%' LIMIT 5")
for row in cursor.fetchall():
    print(row)

conn.close()

License

Public domain (CC0-1.0). Laws are public records.

Source

Compiled from official government sources, legal databases, and public records.

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