Lebanese Legislation

Search Lebanese legislation (laws, decrees, decisions), their articles, court rulings, or Official Gazette issues, by keyword. Arabic and French. Returns verbatim snippets from the Lebanese University's database, never an AI-written summary. Not legal advice.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "words to search for, Arabic or French"
    },
    "kind": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "laws",
        "articles",
        "rulings",
        "gazette"
      ],
      "description": "narrow to one category; omit to search all four"
    },
    "year": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "only laws issued this year (applies when kind is \"laws\" or omitted)"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 20,
      "default": 10,
      "description": "results per category, at most 20"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ]
}

Get a law, decree or similar text's metadata (kind, number, date, status), its table of contents (article numbers) and the texts it amended or was amended by. Use get_article to read one article's verbatim text. Not legal advice.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "the law's numeric id, from search_legislation or its URL"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ]
}

Get one article's verbatim Arabic text as in force today (and French, when the Centre published it and no amendment has replaced it), its in-force status, amendment history, and the canonical and source URLs. When an amendment replaced the wording, text_ar is the new wording and centre_text_ar the earlier one the Centre's site still shows. The text is copied exactly from the database; nothing here is AI-written. Not legal advice.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "law_id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "the law's id (see get_law)"
    },
    "number": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "the article's printed number, e.g. \"212\" or \"12 مكرر\""
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "law_id",
    "number"
  ]
}

Get one court ruling (judgment) by id: court, number, date, panel, and its verbatim text when the Centre holds it as typed text (some rulings exist only as a scanned file). Not legal advice.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "the ruling's numeric id, from search_legislation"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ]
}

Get one Official Gazette issue by id: its number, publication date, and the laws, decrees and decisions it published. Not legal advice.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "the issue's numeric id, from search_legislation"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ]
}

Get the graph edges into or out of one item: a law, an article, a ruling, an opinion, a research study or a Gazette issue. Use this to walk citations and amendments directly, instead of only what get_law and get_article attach automatically. Not legal advice.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "key": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "the item's key: \"law/<id>\", \"law/<id>/art/<number>\", \"ruling/<id>\", \"opinion/<id>\", \"research/<id>\" or \"gazette/<id>\""
    },
    "direction": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "to",
        "from"
      ],
      "default": "to",
      "description": "\"to\" (edges that name this item as their target) or \"from\" (edges this item itself carries)"
    },
    "relation": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "narrow to one relation (e.g. \"cites\", \"amend\", \"repeal\"); omit for all"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 200,
      "default": 50,
      "description": "at most this many edges"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "key"
  ]
}

Get the general repeals that may touch a law: earlier texts with a "all provisions contrary to this law are repealed" clause pointing at it. A list to check, never a finding that anything was actually repealed. Not legal advice.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "law_id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "the law's numeric id"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "law_id"
  ]
}