The present invention is a law retrieval apparatus composed of: data storage
means including a constitution and statute database and a judicial case database,
and including at least one database out of a meta-keyword database, a verb and
object database, and an aid flow database; and a law retrieval server including,
in correspondence with each database accumulated in the data storage means, at
least one retrieval processing means out of meta-keyword retrieval processing means
for reading a retrieval keyword associated with a non-retrieval keyword received
from the meta-keyword database to perform retrieval processing, verb and object
retrieval processing means for reading a retrieval keyword associated with a combination
of the received verb and object from the verb and object database to perform retrieval
processing, and aid flow retrieval processing means, when a retrieval pattern matches
a pattern of an aid flowchart, for requesting additional information in accordance
with the flowchart.