Ohio Legal History Research with LLMC Digital

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LLMC Digital is a non-profit with the goal of preserving legal and government documents and making them available digitally. You can access LLMC Digital through our list of databases.

Ohio legal history researchers will find plenty of primary source materials through LLMC Digital. Collections include:

  • Constitutions
  • Session laws, House & Senate Journals, and early codifications of Ohio statutes
  • Governors’ letters, messages, and correspondences
  • Agency reports
  • Nominative case reporters
  • Historic newspapers
  • Earliest Ohio legal treatises
  • Western Reserve documents

Some interesting individual finds include:

  • A statutory based pleading and practice treatise from the 1880s
  • An agency report on education for disabled children from the 1830s
  • A scan of a manuscript from 1796 describing the territory of Northeast Ohio
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