Legal documents in a broad sense refer to all documents involving legal content, including two aspects, namely, normative legal documents with universal binding force and non-normative legal documents without universal binding force.
In a narrow sense, legal documents refer to non-normative documents with legal effect or legal significance made by national judicial organs, lawyers and law firms, arbitration organs, notary organs and parties to cases to deal with various litigation cases and non-litigation cases.
Normative legal documents are the forms or carriers to express legal contents. They are universal, repeated and applied legal documents, so-called laws, which have the original form of constitution, laws, regulations and rules.
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Classification of legal documents of people's procuratorates:
1, according to the different nature of litigation, is divided into two parts: procuratorial documents used in criminal cases and procuratorial documents used in civil and administrative cases;
2. According to the difference between external use and internal use of documents, legal documents in criminal cases are divided into litigation documents and working documents;
3. According to the different litigation stages, nature and functions, documents can be divided into: filing documents, investigation documents, compulsory measures such as examination and approval of arrest, examination and prosecution and appearance in court, protest memories, procuratorial supervision and legal supervision documents, prosecution and criminal compensation documents, approval and extension of the time limit for handling cases, and defense agency documents;
4. According to the division of labor of the business departments of the people's procuratorates and the source of cases, it can be divided into criminal procuratorial documents, directly accepted investigation (anti-corruption and bribery, legal prosecution) documents, procuratorial supervision documents, prosecution complaints (including criminal compensation) documents and civil and administrative procuratorial documents;
5. According to the different forms of document production, it can be divided into four categories: written narrative (such as indictment), fill-in-the-blank method (such as approving the arrest decision), written document (such as discussing the case transcript) and form document (such as service receipt).