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Older foreign legal materials may be digitized and available for free through sources like HathiTrust Digital Library, Google Books, or the Internet Archive Books (date range of coverage varies depending on the copyright laws of those countries). Additionally, the following subscription databases provide access to historical foreign legal materials.
During the course of your research, you will likely encounter unfamiliar abbreviations. Use one of the following tools to help you decode the abbreviations.
World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations by
"The World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations is the most comprehensive source for discovering the meaning of legal abbreviations worldwide, enabling researchers of foreign laws and legal literature to ascertain the meaning of various abbreviations and acronyms." - Publisher
Prince's Bieber Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations by The following resources can assist you with citing foreign and international legal materials.
The Bluebook by
A Uniform System of Citation: The Bluebook is the definitive style guide for legal citation in the United States. For generations, law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other legal professionals have relied on The Bluebook's uniform system of citation in their writing. In a diverse and rapidly changing legal profession, The Bluebook continues to provide a systematic method by which members of the profession communicate important information to one another about the sources and legal authorities upon which they rely in their work.
Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations by 
International Citator and Research Guide: The Greenbook by
"The ICRG set, conveniently organized into global regions, is a source of foundational and comprehensive citation standards for scholars working with all types of international and foreign materials. It presents each citation standard in the context of that country or organization’s history and legal institutions. . . . It can be used as a companion to The Bluebook, whose coverage of international sources is limited." - Publisher