--subdivision Archival resources under topical headings and under names of countries, cities, etc.; and subdivision Archives under types of corporate bodies, classes of persons, and ethnic groups, and under names of individual persons, families, and corporate bodies for collections of documents or historical records, including notes, correspondence, minutes, photographs, legal papers, etc.
--subdivision Charters under names of states, counties and cities of the United States, and under Indigenous jurisdictions in the United States; also under names of individual corporate bodies; and subdivision Charters, grants, privileges under names of foreign countries, cities, etc.
Here are entered works on documents having legal relevance in general. Works on documents written in order to give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, are entered under the heading Legal instruments.
