Corpus RLD: El corpus de uso de recursos lingüísticos en el derecho español.

This article explains the RLD corpus, a collection of cases where the "Jueces del Supremo" (Lords and Ladies Justices) of the Spanish High Court and the Constitutional Court have turned to Spanish dictionaries and grammar as a source of linguistic authority to write court judgments. The four main stages followed in the creation of the corpus, (i) design, (ii) implementation, (iii) revision and (iv) publication, are thoroughly explained. The aim of this corpus, which includes 1,940 court judgments issued between the years 2012 and 2018, is to provide a representative and empirically adequate sample of data of the use of dictionaries and grammar as a source of linguistic authority in Spanish jurisprudence. This corpus fills a gap in language and law studies: on the one hand, the lack of large shared corpora of legal texts, available for any researcher or research group interested in this issue, and, on the other hand, the need to analyze empirically the use of dictionaries and grammar in the court judgments of the Spanish High Court and the Constitutional Court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]