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The Cambridge International Corpus (CIC) is a collection of over 2 billion words [1] of real spoken and written English. The texts are stored in a database that can be searched to see how English is used. The CIC also contains the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a unique collection of over 60,000 exam papers from Cambridge ESOL.
The work consists of Anglo-Saxon legal materials in Latin translation as well as a number of Latin texts of legal interest that were produced after the Conquest. It ranks as the largest surviving medieval collection of pre-Conquest law and is the second to have been produced during Henry I's reign, after that contained in Cambridge, Corpus ...
As well as surviving in the later Latin translation of the Instituta Cnuti, the laws of Cnut survive in four manuscripts: London, British Library, Cotton Nero A. i, fols. 3–41 (mid-eleventh century) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201, fols. 126–30 (mid-eleventh century) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383, pp. 43–72 (twelfth-century)
Text corpora (singular: text corpus) are large and structured sets of texts, which have been systematically collected.Text corpora are used by corpus linguists and within other branches of linguistics for statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, finding patterns of language use, investigating language change and variation, and teaching language proficiency.
The Corpus Juris Civilis was translated into French, German, Italian, and Spanish in the 19th century. [12] However, no English translation of the entire Corpus Juris Civilis existed until 1932 when Samuel Parsons Scott published his version The Civil Law.
Legal English, also known as legalese, [1] is a register of English used in legal writing. It differs from day-to-day spoken English in a variety of ways including the use of specialized vocabulary, syntactic constructions, and set phrases such as legal doublets .
The title page of a 1780 edition of Glanvill's Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliæ [1]. The Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae (Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of England), often called Glanvill, is the earliest treatise on English law.
Nigel Simmonds is an English legal scholar who is Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Cambridge [1] and former Dean of College at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. [ 2 ] Career