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Search Lexiara's bounded EU and UK legislation corpus. Returns compact, citable results with opaque ids; pass an id unchanged to fetch for the provision text and provenance.

Retrieve one search result by its opaque id, including provision text, canonical URL, authority status and source provenance. Use ids returned by search without editing them.

Authoritative text of one provision, with in-force window, repealed/prospective status, concept tags, transposition edges and full provenance. `stand` says what date the served text speaks as of (`consolidated` with a date, `as-adopted`, or `unknown`) and carries the one-line `sentence` to show a reader — answer questions about currency from it, not from `inForce`, which is when the version's validity starts. Use `asAt` (YYYY-MM-DD) for point-in-time law only where the held expression has an explicit validity window covering that date. Otherwise the tool returns the stable `date_not_covered` refusal; omit `asAt` to request current text. Machine translation is not exposed through this connector because generating a new rendering is not a read-only action. Use term_languages for authentic mu

Ranked full-text search over provision text. Results carry work, eId, status and provenance — feed a hit's work+eId to lookup_provision for the complete payload.

The cross-reference neighbourhood of a provision plus its amendment history. Use this when a provision's relevance is not on its face: a duty that says 'the information referred to in Article 6(1)' is silent about what that information now includes, and about which amending act put it there. Returns citations both ways and the amending acts marked on this provision and on the ones it cites. `citedByArticle` answers the inbound question at ARTICLE granularity — which provisions of other instruments name THIS article — split into `eu` and `national` by the citing instrument's jurisdiction, and distinct from `citedBy`, which is act-level and returns the same list on every provision of the act. Lexiara Nexus data requires an API key on a signed-in account. The free plan carries a monthly Nexu

The definition of a term of art, and the provision that gives it. Ask this BEFORE search_legislation whenever the question is what a phrase means ('durable medium', 'taxable person'): search returns provisions that USE a phrase, this returns the law that DEFINES it, verbatim. A term defined by several instruments returns several rows — the scope of each definition is the instrument carrying it, so check the work before applying one. The definition text is always free. Only the adoption resolution (`adopts`, which act a borrowed definition comes from) is Lexiara Nexus data requiring an API key on a signed-in account.

The act's glossary: every term it defines, alphabetical, with the publisher's own wording verbatim and the provision that defines each one. Use it to orient in an unfamiliar instrument, or to check what a term means IN THIS ACT rather than in the corpus at large — several instruments define 'consumer' differently and all are right within their own scope. AN EMPTY GLOSSARY IS ABOUT OUR READER, NOT THE ACT. Extraction reads the drafting constructions it has been taught and coverage is uneven across legal traditions; `provisions` is returned so a zero can be read against the size of the instrument. Do not report it as 'this act defines no terms'. A NULL definition means one of two things: `borrowed` true means the act takes the meaning from another instrument and states none of its own; oth

How an act words one of its defined terms in each language version held. NOT a translation: an EU instrument is equally authentic in all 24 official languages (Regulation No 1/1958, article 4), so each wording is the law in that language. Use it to answer 'what do the German and French texts call this?' — e.g. 'commercial guarantee of durability' is 'gewerbliche Haltbarkeitsgarantie' and 'garantie commerciale de durabilité'. The term may be given in ANY language held, so the German words find the English definition just as well as the other way round. SCOPE: this is the EU act's own wording per language. It is NOT how a Member State's transposing legislation words it — a national implementation may lawfully choose different wording, and reaching it means following a transposition link th

Cross-jurisdiction view of one legal concept: every provision tagged with the given EuroVoc concept, with tagging method and confidence. E.g. 'eurovoc:4585' (VAT), 'eurovoc:4392' (VAT rate). The language-neutral way to line up EU and national law on the same subject.

Edges between instruments: which national laws transpose a directive (direction 'in'), or what an instrument implements/amends (direction 'out'). Instrument-level; for article-level links use find_national_implementations.

The act-level overview: every provision of every instrument in this corpus that names the given act, grouped by citing instrument, with the article of the act each citation resolved to (`targetEId`, null where the citation is act-level — which is most of them, and is not a defect). Each instrument also carries `adoptions`: definitions it BORROWS from this act rather than writing, which is a different claim and is counted apart, never summed with the citations. Use related_works for the same question at instrument level, which is public. A row asserts that the provision NAMES this act, and nothing about whether it implements or corresponds to it. Lexiara Nexus data requires an API key on a signed-in account. The free plan carries a monthly Nexus allowance; the legislative text itself is al

Prior and successor versions of one provision across consolidations — how the text got to its current form. Lexiara Nexus data requires an API key on a signed-in account. The free plan carries a monthly Nexus allowance; the legislative text itself is always free.