First Principles of Business Law

Finding law online

6. Advanced search techniques

6.10. The limits of using proximity operators

 

 

 

Let's use our sample database again to test the use of proximity operators.

Suppose you want to find documents that refer to 'Justice of the Peace'. Document 2 below is therefore the only one you would want. Below are two search terms. Click on the terms for an explanation of how they should work. Click on each document to see if it would be retrieved by either of the terms.

'justice pre/3 peace'

'justice w/3 peace'

 

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