Saudi Arabian Legal Articles from 71 Regulations

Encompassing 3,185 legal articles extracted from 71 distinct laws and regulations issued by the Saudi Ministry of Justice. The text is in Arabic, with each article linked to its source law and type.

Use Cases

• Train a text classification model on the `text` field to categorize articles by `law_type`.
• Analyze the distribution of `law_name` and `law_type` to understand the composition of Saudi legal frameworks.
• Build a search or retrieval system for legal articles using `article_number` and `law_name` as key identifiers.
• Perform named entity recognition or information extraction on the Arabic `text` of legal articles.

Strengths

• Contains 3,185 individual legal articles, providing a substantial corpus of text.
• Sourced from 71 distinct laws and regulations, offering breadth across legal domains.
• Includes structured metadata such as `law_name`, `law_type`, and `article_number` for each text entry.

Limitations

• The dataset is exclusively in Arabic, limiting accessibility for non-Arabic speakers.
• No information is provided on the temporal range of the source laws, which may affect analysis of legal evolution.
• Sample data and file formats are unavailable, making it difficult to assess the exact structure before download.

Provenance

Source

Saudi Ministry of Justice (وزارة العدل السعودية)

Collection Method

Extracted from 71 laws and regulations.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Saudi Arabia