Pakistani Law Dataset: Structured Legal Acts of Pakistan (Criminal, Family, and Property Law)

Description

This dataset contains structured and machine-readable data extracted from 8 major Pakistani legal documents, parsed from official PDF versions. It covers Family Law, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Property Law, and Evidence Law. Designed for use in legal AI, RAG pipelines, and LLM fine-tuning. Built as part of the paper: "Enhancing Legal Assistance with Large Language Models: A Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach" — Ahmed et al., submitted to PLOS ONE, 2025. Files included: - combined legal dataset.csv: Merged file combining all laws - 2-limitation-act-1908: Legal time limits for civil suits - Code of Criminal Procedure: Procedural rules for criminal trials - Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961: Marriage, divorce, inheritance - Pakistan Penal Code: Penal offenses and punishments - Police law: Police powers and duties - Transfer property: Property transfer, sales, mortgage, lease - qanun-e-shahadat 1984: Law of evidence All files follow schema: Book | Chapter Number | Chapter Title | Section | Heading | Definition For research purposes only. Not a substitute for professional legal advice.

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Files (11)

• CSVMuslim_Family_Laws_Ordinance_1961.csv10 kB
• CSVLegal_QA_dataset_From_lawyers.csv43 kB
• CSVTransfer%20property.csv150 kB
• CSV2-limitation-act-1908-pdf_extracted.csv33 kB
• CSVCode_of_Criminal_Procedure_Structured%20upto%2016%20chapter.csv680 kB
• CSVcombined_legal_dataset.csv1.5 MB
• PARQUETtrain-00000-of-00001.parquet647 kB
• CSVDatatset%20For%20FAISS.csv1.4 MB
• CSVPakistan_Penal_Code.csv414 kB
• CSVPolice_law.csv179 kB
• CSVqanun-e-shahadat_1984.csv146 kB

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