Legal Core Ontology
Copyright (c) 2013-2014 EDM Council, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Object Management Group, Inc.
LegalCore.rdf
The http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/FND/20130801/Law/LegalCore.rdf version of the ontology was was modified per the issue resolutions identified in the FIBO FND 1.0 FTF report and in http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/FND/1.0/AboutFND-1.0/.
The http://www.omg.org/spec/FIBO/Foundations/20130601/Law/LegalCore.owl version of the ontology was revised in advance of the September 2013 New Brunswick, NJ meeting, as follows:
(1) to use slash style URI/IRIss (also called 303 URIs, vs. hash style) as required to support server side processing
(2) to use version-independent IRIs for all definitions internally as opposed to version-specific IRIs
(3) to change the file suffix from .owl to .rdf to increase usability in RDF tools
(4) to use 4-level abbreviations and corresponding namespace prefixes for all FIBO ontologies, reflecting a family/specification/module/ontology structure
(5) to incorporate changes to the specification metadata to support documentation at the family, specification, module, and ontology level, similar to the abbreviations.
(6) to revise some of the text definitions using more formal sources.
This ontology defines high-level legal concepts for use in other FIBO ontology elements. These concepts include law and constitution, both of which are framed at a more abstract level than national or state laws and constitutions, so that law forms the basis both for statutes and for company by-laws, and constitution forms the basis both for national or state constitutions and for instruments which are constitutive of incorporated legal entities. This ontology also defines some of the variants of these such as governmental constitutions and ordinances. Other types of law are provided in the Jurisdictions ontology as extensions of concepts in this ontology. Court of Law is also defined here.
fibo-fnd-law-cor
http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/AboutTheEDMC-FIBOFamily/
http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/FND/20130801/Law/LegalCore.rdf
http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/FND/AboutFND/
http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/FND/Law/AboutLaw/
http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/FND/Organizations/FormalOrganizations/
http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/FND/Relations/Relations/
http://www.omg.org/spec/EDMC-FIBO/FND/Utilities/AnnotationVocabulary/
http://www.omg.org/spec/FIBO/Foundations/20130601/Law/LegalCore.owl
http://www.omg.org/spec/ODM/
http://www.omg.org/techprocess/ab/SpecificationMetadata/MITLicense
http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/owl#w3c_all
constrains
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/constrains
forces, compels, or obliges
has in force
relates a jurisdiction or situation to a rule, regulation or law (collectively ‘law’) that is currently in force in that situation or jurisdiction
is constrained by
identifies the policy, rule, regulation, contract, or other thing that compels or obliges someone to act in some way
is in force in
identifies a jurisdiction or similar context in which some law (including by-law, company by-law and state law) has effect
constitution
A constitution defines the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
This defines the framework in which laws (for a country constitution), rules and regulations (for a party or organization constitution) or contractual commitments are made and in which they have force.
court of law
A court of law is a court that hears cases and decides them on the basis of statutes or the common law.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
governmental constitution
Most constitutions seek to regulate the relationship between institutions of the state, in a basic sense the relationship between the executive, legislature and the judiciary, but also the relationship of institutions within those branches. For example, executive branches can be divided into a head of government, government departments/ministries, executive agencies and a civil service/administration. Most constitutions also attempt to define the relationship between individuals and the state, and to establish the broad rights of individual citizens. It is thus the most basic law of a territory from which all the other laws and rules are hierarchically derived; in some territories it is in fact called Basic Law.
This defines the framework in which laws are made and in which they have force.
a set of rules and principles that define the nature and extent of government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution#Governmental_constitutions
Law
Any law or body of law, which may have force in some context, including national laws, company bylaws and the like.
Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition. Certain laws are made by governments, specifically by their legislatures although the sense intended here is broader. The formation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution (written or unwritten) and the rights encoded therein. The law shapes politics, economics and society in countless ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people.
a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law
ordinance
An authoritative rule or law; a decree or command; a public injunction or regulation, such as a city ordinance against excessive horn blowing. (Source: Dictionary.com)