Documents Law and Legal Definition
A document is a record or the capturing of some event or thing so that the information will not be lost. It refers to a body of information that is physically represented and having the capacity to communicate. Any formally executed writing that can be attributed to its author, and which expresses a legally enforceable act, process, contractual duty, obligation, or right; evidencing such act, process, or agreement is a legal document. Examples of documents are sales invoices, wills and deeds, newspaper issues, individual newspaper stories.
To document a fact or event is to record or annotate it, meaning to put it into some relatively permanent form so that it can be retrieved later.
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- Actuarial Documents [Federal Crop Insurance Corporation]
- Construction Contract Documents
- Consular Documents
- Customs Documents
- Documents Against Acceptance D/A
- Documents Against Payment D/P
- Documents of Title
- Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents
- Inspection of Documents
- Loan Documents [Energy]