List of legal abbreviations
Wikimedia glossary list article
This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases. Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, and abbreviations may be with or without periods for each letter. For example, the Code of Federal Regulations may appear abbreviated as "C.F.R." or just as "CFR".
Legal citations
Canon law
CCEO — Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium, the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches
CIC — Codex Iuris Canonici, the Code of Canon Law (further specified as 1983 CIC or 1917 CIC)
CJS — Corpus Juris Secundum
S.R.R. — Sacræ Rotæ Romanæ, the Tribunal of the Roman Rota
SRRDec — Sacræ Rotæ Romanæ Decisiones
Common law
AD - South African Law Reports, Appellate Division
All SA — All South African Law Reports
BAILII - British and Irish Legal Information Institute
B.A.P. — Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
BCLR – Butterworths Constitutional Law Reports (South Africa)
BLLR – Butterworths Labour Law Reports (South Africa)
CJEU – Court of Justice of the European Union
CBJ — California Bar journal
CCH — Commerce Clearing House, a publisher of case law reporters owned by Wolters Kluwer
CCR — California Code of Regulations (official text?) (source: Thomson/West)
DLR — Dominion Law Reports (Canadian law report)
I.L.M. — International Legal Materials
ILJ – Industrial Law Journal
ILJ – Industrial Law Journal (South Africa)
IRB — Internal Revenue Bulletin (from July 2003 to date)
ILRM — Irish Law Reports Monthly
IR — Irish Law Reports
IRC — Internal Revenue Code
R.I.A.A. — Reports of International Arbitral Awards
SA – South African Law Reports
S.A. - Société Anonyme
SACR – South African Criminal Law Reports
SALLR – South African Labour Law Reports
SC – Senior Counsel
S.C.R. (or SCR) — Supreme Court Reports (Supreme Court of Canada)
S. Ct. — Supreme Court Reporter (Supreme Court of the United States)
S.E. — South Eastern Reporter
So. — Southern Reporter
S.R. & O. — Statutory Rules and Orders (Ireland)
United Kingdom
AC — Appeal Cases (United Kingdom law report)
All ER — All England Law Reports
Bla.Com. or Bl.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of legal abbreviations” is wikimedia glossary list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, legal and abbreviations, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “wikimedia glossary list article” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1801579. The Library of Congress control number is sh85075120. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 1917 and 2003.
A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “List of legal abbreviations”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow List of legal abbreviations primary sources, List of legal abbreviations archive and List research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “List of legal abbreviations”?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “List of legal abbreviations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.