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The U.S. Legal Glossary Database organizes 8,796 current federal legal terms from official U.S. Courts and Department of Justice glossaries plus explicit definitions in the current United States Code. Core delivers one preferred definition per normalized term. Higher tiers add every retained source definition, official citations and source links, plus extracted acronyms or alternate labels. Matching UTF-8 CSV, JSON, and indexed SQLite files support legal education, publishing, search, taxonomy work, compliance research, and reference applications. This educational reference is not legal advice.

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U.S. Legal Glossary Database

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Table	Records	Fields
legal_terms	8796	term_id, letter, term, definition, jurisdiction_scope, language
source_definitions	15239	definition_id, term_id, publisher, source_term, source_definition, source_citation, source_url, source_checked_date
term_aliases	18	alias_id, term_id, alias, alias_type

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8,796Legal Terms

15,239Source Definitions

18Term Aliases

Source Definition

Office Of The Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House Of Representatives14,875
Administrative Office Of The U.S. Courts241
U.S. Department Of Justice123

Initial Letter

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C1,060
S872
P734
A659
I526
F501
E482
M453
R452
N401
D398
T339

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legal terms8,796 records · 6 fields

term_id

Distinct: 8,796
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

letter

Distinct: 25
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

term

Distinct: 8,796
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

definition

Distinct: 8,762
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

jurisdiction_scope

Distinct: 1
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

language

Distinct: 1
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

source definitions15,239 records · 8 fields

definition_id

Distinct: 15,239
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

term_id

Distinct: 8,796
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

publisher

Distinct: 3
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

source_term

Distinct: 9,158
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

source_definition

Distinct: 13,639
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

source_citation

Distinct: 2,091
Missing: 364 (2.4%)

source_url

Distinct: 2,093
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

source_checked_date

Distinct: 1
Missing: 0 (0.0%)

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legal termsDownload this sample CSV

term_id	letter	term	definition	jurisdiction_scope	language
1	Y	100-year floodplain	that area which is subject to inundation from a flood having a 1-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year	United States federal law, courts, and criminal justice	English
2	D	180-day supplement	a supplement to an approved premarket application or premarket report under section 360e of this title that is not a panel-track supplement and requests a significant change in components, materials, design, specification, software, color additives, or labeling	United States federal law, courts, and criminal justice	English
3	A	181 Area	the area identified in map 15, page 58, of the Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 1997–2002, dated August 1996, of the Minerals Management Service, available in the Office of the Director of the Minerals Management Service, excluding the area offered in OCS Lease Sale 181, held on December 5, 2001	United States federal law, courts, and criminal justice	English
4	S	181 South Area	any area - “(A) located - “(i) south of the 181 Area	United States federal law, courts, and criminal justice	English
5	I	1862 Institution	a college or university eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 ( 12 Stat	United States federal law, courts, and criminal justice	English
6	I	1890 Institution	a college or university eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890 ( 26 Stat	United States federal law, courts, and criminal justice	English
7	U	1950 UMWA Benefit Plan	a UMWA Benefit Plan, participation in which is substantially limited to individuals who retired before 1976	United States federal law, courts, and criminal justice	English
8	U	1950 UMWA Pension Plan	a pension plan described in section 404(c) (or a continuation thereof), participation in which is substantially limited to individuals who retired before 1976	United States federal law, courts, and criminal justice	English

source definitionsDownload this sample CSV

definition_id	term_id	publisher	source_term	source_definition	source_citation	source_url	source_checked_date
1	1	Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives	100-year floodplain	that area which is subject to inundation from a flood having a 1-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year	42 U.S.C. § 4004.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title42/section§ 4004.&edition=prelim	2026-09-04
2	2	Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives	180-day supplement	a supplement to an approved premarket application or premarket report under section 360e of this title that is not a panel-track supplement and requests a significant change in components, materials, design, specification, software, color additives, or labeling	21 U.S.C. § 379i.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title21/section§ 379i.&edition=prelim	2026-09-04
3	3	Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives	181 Area	the area identified in map 15, page 58, of the Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 1997–2002, dated August 1996, of the Minerals Management Service, available in the Office of the Director of the Minerals Management Service, excluding the area offered in OCS Lease Sale 181, held on December 5, 2001	43 U.S.C. § 1331.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title43/section§ 1331.&edition=prelim	2026-09-04
4	3	Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives	181 Area	the area identified in map 15, page 58, of the Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 1997–2002, dated August 1996, of the Minerals Management Service, available in the Office of the Director of the Minerals Management Service, excluding the area offered in OCS Lease Sale 181, held on December 5, 2001	43 U.S.C. “SEC. 102.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title43/section“SEC. 102.&edition=prelim	2026-09-04
5	4	Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives	181 South Area	any area - “(A) located - “(i) south of the 181 Area	43 U.S.C. § 1331.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title43/section§ 1331.&edition=prelim	2026-09-04
6	4	Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives	181 South Area	any area - “(A) located - “(i) south of the 181 Area	43 U.S.C. “SEC. 102.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title43/section“SEC. 102.&edition=prelim	2026-09-04
7	5	Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives	1862 Institution	a college or university eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 ( 12 Stat	7 U.S.C. § 7601.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title7/section§ 7601.&edition=prelim	2026-09-04
8	6	Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives	1890 Institution	a college or university eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890 ( 26 Stat	7 U.S.C. § 7601.	https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title7/section§ 7601.&edition=prelim	2026-09-04

term aliasesDownload this sample CSV

alias_id	term_id	alias	alias_type
1	48	501 organization	short label
2	167	AO	acronym
3	167	Administrative Office of the United States Courts	short label
4	375	ADR	acronym
5	375	Alternative dispute resolution	short label
6	3827	IHR Monitoring and Evaluation Framework	short label
7	4077	Insider	short label
8	4319	issuing or assuming a stock option in a transaction to which section 424 applies	short label

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