The research and advancements in the field of “legal informatics” has resulted into development of various legal
databases. Thus, huge volume of legal information gets generated. This information growth has accelerated the need to develop
legal ontologies. Ontologies are widely used by legal practitioners, researchers and ordinary citizens for simulating legal actions,
performing linguistics search and classification, and to stay up-to-date with the continual modification of laws. This research
contributes to this purpose of developing an open legal ontology.
