actstexts
Actstexts refers to the textual content that accompanies acts in various domains. The term is used in legal, theatrical, and scholarly contexts to describe the final, official, or published text of an act and its components, such as provisions, amendments, or stage directions.
In law, act texts are the authoritative wording of statutes, ordinances, or regulations as published by government
In theatre and performance studies, act texts denote the scripts associated with one or more acts within
In digital humanities and information science, actstexts are collected as corpora for linguistic, statistical, or rhetorical
Access to act texts varies by domain and jurisdiction, ranging from public-domain statutes to rights-restricted scripts.
See also: statute text, script, theatrical script, corpus linguistics, TEI.