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Considerations Relating to the Compilation of a Legal Thesaurus in German

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Henning Groll
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The basic need for unification and clarification of technical terminology is probably to be met with in all branches of learning. The lawyers might form an exception to this since legal science by its very nature is, to a very large extent, a conceptual science. It is worth while, nevertheless, to examine the question whether a uniform legal thesaurus for the legal systems in the area in which German is spoken is necessary; that is to say, a thesaurus which could, among other things, contribute to a unification of legal terminology. The following report should not be understood as a contribution to the basic problems of a thesaurus as a documentation language of a special kind. Those considerations and questions will, however, be briefly examined which could arise in connection with the compilation and development of a special legal thesaurus.

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Thesaurus Problems
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International Journal of Law Libraries , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 13 - 19
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Copyright © International Association of Law Libraries 1974 

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