This resource was a gift from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation. Like many of his colleagues at the bar, Lincoln was a general practice attorney and represented clients in a variety of civil and criminal actions including debt, slander, divorce, dower and partition, mortgage foreclosure, and murder. It includes more than 1.5 million facts about cases and non litigation activities handled by Lincoln and his law partners.
Legal cases comprise the overwhelming majority of the database.
Documents contained in this edition were gathered from courthouses, record repositories, libraries, and private collections all over the United States. Cases and activities are available through a topical index that includes social, historical, and legal topics. Keyword search by subject category, participant's name, case name, date, jurisdiction, court name, judgment, etc. Search results contain the case or activity name, a narrative description, and date. This may include facts about a case, list of participants with selected biographies, list of documents filed and authors, as well as original document images.