Westlaw Database Directory

Summary
Database Name: Combined Treaties

Database Identifier: CMB-TREATIES

Coverage
Varies by source

Content Highlights:
Combined Treaties in a multibase which contains all treaties, conventions, agreements and other international materials from a number of separate and disparate databases. A document is the text of an international document, including an introductory note and/or content summary, if available. Coverage varies by source.

This database is a Premier Reserve database.

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Contents
The multibase includes all of the information in the following databases:

USTREATIES U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements

FTX-TREATIES Federal Taxation - U.S. Treaties and Conventions

GATT Uruguay Round General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement

INTLENVL International Environmental Law Documents

UKHR-TREATIES United Kingdom Human Rights - Treaties

EU-TREATIES European Union Treaties

AU-AGREE-INTL Australian International Agreements

RIA-TREATIES RIA International Tax Treaties and Explanations

UKIP-TREATIES United Kingdom Intellectual Property - Treaties

ILM International Legal Materials

Searching and Fields
In this database you may choose the Terms and Connectors search method or the Natural Language search method.

With a Terms and Connectors search, you enter a query, which consists of key terms from your issue and connectors specifying the relationship between those terms. With Natural Language, you can retrieve documents by simply describing your issue in plain English.

For more information on using one of these search methods, see online Help.

Tip: Use a date restriction in your query to retrieve documents the became effective, in-force, or were proclaimed on a specific date or during a specific range of dates, e.g., da(aft mm/dd/yyyy & bef mm/dd/yyyy).

Tip: Query Template

This database uses a custom query template in addition to Terms & Connectors and Natural Language searching. For Country Name, Title and Citation searching a default paragraph connector (/p) is entered when a space is left between terms. In order to search in the alternative, type the word OR between search terms. To use a different connector (for example /s or &) type the connector as usual.

Date and Additional Search Terms options in the template use standard Westlaw searching.

Tip: Special Country Name Equivalents

This database includes a special equivalency feature for selected country names. Type in the current name of a country, and retrieve treaties where the former name of the country is given, or vice versa. For example, if you enter Zanzibar as the Country Name, you will retrieve all the treaties where Zanzibar or Tanzania is the named party. This feature also supports alternative spellings for selected country names.

The abbreviations for the fields in this database are:

CITATION

Unique references for citing to specific documents.

CTR

COUNTRY NAME

Foreign country that is party to the document.

TOPIC

Subject matter of the document.

TITLE

Title of the document.

YEAR

"In Force", Effective, Proclaimed, or other significant date(s).

YEAR SIGNED

Date(s) signed

TEXT

Text of the document.

AUTHOR

Name and title of all designated signers, if available.

END

Annex and other supplementary materials, if available.

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