| # Philippine Legal Documents Dataset | |
| A comprehensive collection of Philippine legal documents from Lawphil.net, extracted from HTML to Markdown and organized for easy querying. | |
| ## Overview | |
| This dataset contains **114,340** legal documents spanning from 1900 to 2025, including: | |
| - **Jurisprudence** (68,080 documents) - Supreme Court decisions | |
| - **Statutes** (19,793 documents) - Republic Acts, Commonwealth Acts, Presidential Decrees, etc. | |
| - **Executive Issuances** (26,458 documents) - Administrative Orders, Executive Orders, Memorandum Orders, etc. | |
| - **Constitutions** (9 documents) - Philippine constitutions from different periods | |
| ## Categories | |
| | Category | Description | Sources | | |
| |----------|-------------|---------| | |
| | `juris` | Supreme Court decisions and jurisprudence | `juris` | | |
| | `statutes` | Legislative acts and statutes | `acts`, `repacts`, `comacts`, `bataspam`, `presdecs` | | |
| | `executive` | Executive issuances and orders | `ao`, `execord`, `mo`, `mc`, `proc`, `genor` | | |
| | `consti` | Philippine constitutions | `consti` | | |
| ### Source Details | |
| | Source | Description | Years | Count | | |
| |--------|-------------|-------|-------| | |
| | `juris` | Jurisprudence / Supreme Court decisions | 1901-2025 | 68,080 | | |
| | `acts` | Acts of the Philippine Commission/Assembly | 1900-1935 | 4,257 | | |
| | `repacts` | Republic Acts | 1946-2025 | 12,071 | | |
| | `comacts` | Commonwealth Acts | 1935-1946 | 733 | | |
| | `bataspam` | Batas Pambansa | 1978-1994 | 887 | | |
| | `presdecs` | Presidential Decrees | 1972-1986 | 1,845 | | |
| | `ao` | Administrative Orders | 1936-2025 | 2,811 | | |
| | `execord` | Executive Orders | 1900s-2020s | 5,750 | | |
| | `mo` | Memorandum Orders | 1900s-2020s | 2,401 | | |
| | `mc` | Memorandum Circulars | 1900s-2020s | 2,220 | | |
| | `proc` | Proclamations | 1901-2020s | 13,195 | | |
| | `genor` | General Orders | 81 | | | |
| | `consti` | Constitutions | 1902, 1916, 1935, 1943, 1973, 1986, 1987 | 9 | | |
| ## Usage | |
| ### Loading the Dataset | |
| ```python | |
| import pandas as pd | |
| # Load the consolidated dataset | |
| df = pd.read_parquet("lawphil_consolidated.parquet") | |
| print(f"Total documents: {len(df):,}") | |
| print(f"Columns: {df.columns.tolist()}") | |
| ``` | |
| ### Filtering by Category | |
| ```python | |
| # Get all statutes | |
| statutes = df[df['category'] == 'statutes'] | |
| # Get all jurisprudence | |
| jurisprudence = df[df['category'] == 'juris'] | |
| # Get all executive issuances | |
| executive = df[df['category'] == 'executive'] | |
| ``` | |
| ### Filtering by Source | |
| ```python | |
| # Get only Republic Acts | |
| ra = df[df['source'] == 'repacts'] | |
| # Get only Executive Orders | |
| eo = df[df['source'] == 'execord'] | |
| # Get only Administrative Orders | |
| ao = df[df['source'] == 'ao'] | |
| ``` | |
| ### Filtering by Year | |
| ```python | |
| # Get documents from a specific year | |
| docs_2020 = df[df['year'] == 2020] | |
| # Get documents from a date range | |
| docs_2000s = df[(df['year'] >= 2000) & (df['year'] < 2010)] | |
| ``` | |
| ### Reading Document Content | |
| ```python | |
| # Get a specific document | |
| doc = df.iloc[0] | |
| print(f"Title: {doc['title']}") | |
| print(f"Source: {doc['source']}") | |
| print(f"Year: {doc['year']}") | |
| print(f"Path: {doc['path']}") | |
| print(f"\nContent:\n{doc['content'][:500]}...") | |
| ``` | |
| ### Searching by Keyword | |
| ```python | |
| # Search in titles | |
| results = df[df['title'].str.contains('labor', case=False, na=False)] | |
| # Search in content | |
| results = df[df['content'].str.contains('corruption', case=False, na=False)] | |
| ``` | |
| ## Schema | |
| | Column | Type | Description | | |
| |--------|------|-------------| | |
| | `id` | string | Unique identifier (format: `{source}:{path}`) | | |
| | `source` | string | Document source (e.g., `repacts`, `execord`, `juris`) | | |
| | `category` | string | High-level category (`juris`, `statutes`, `executive`, `consti`) | | |
| | `year` | int | Year of the document | | |
| | `month` | int | Month of the document (for jurisprudence only) | | |
| | `path` | string | File path relative to project root | | |
| | `basename` | string | Filename without extension | | |
| | `title` | string | Document title extracted from content | | |
| | `content` | string | Full markdown content | | |
| ## Statistics | |
| - **Total Documents:** 115,340 | |
| - **Date Range:** 1901-2025 | |
| - **File Size:** 753 MB (consolidated parquet) | |
| - **Sources:** 14 different legal document types | |
| ## Data Source | |
| Documents were originally sourced from [Lawphil.net](https://lawphil.net), a project of the Arellano Law Foundation. | |
| ## License | |
| The original documents from Lawphil.net are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. |