search_law
Find the statutory provision (teisės akto straipsnis) that governs a question. PASS THE QUERY IN LITHUANIAN. The corpus is Lithuanian law in Lithuanian; an English query is not translated for you and does not work - measured 2026-08-28 on 23 questions a lawyer had answered from the corpus, Lithuanian found the confirmed article for 10 of them and English for 0, and the English attempts did not come back empty, they came back wrong. If the user writes in another language, translate INTO Lithuanian and use the term of art a Lithuanian lawyer would type: ieškinio senaties terminas, darbo sutarties nutraukimas, nuomos sutartis, servitutas, juridinio asmens pertvarkymas. Searches acts and codes (įstatymai ir kodeksai) in the consolidated version in force now. Returns pinpoints (article numbers), not summaries. Follow up with read_paragraphs to read the text, or cited_by to see how the courts have read it. jurisdictions accepts several for a matter that spans countries. codes names the code the question belongs to (CPK, BPK, ABTĮ, CK, DK) and you should pass it for anything PROCEDURAL. Every procedural code has articles with the same headings, different numbers and different time limits, so an answer from the wrong one looks exactly like an answer from the right one: measured 2026-08-28, four of ten procedural questions returned their top hit from the wrong code, including a civil cassation deadline answered from the criminal procedure code.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| also | No | Other phrasings of the SAME question, each fused as its own ranking - up to 4. Pass one only when it is a genuinely DIFFERENT ANGLE: the legal term of art, or the noun phrase a provision heading would be written in. Do NOT pass the same sentence reworded, which was measured to make results worse (hit@5 12 to 10). You are the one who knows what a different angle on this question is, which is why this is offered rather than applied automatically. | |
| codes | No | Restrict to named codes by their short form (`CK`, `CPK`, `BK`, `DK`). The fastest way to ask 'what does the Civil Code say about this'. | |
| limit | No | How many passages to return, default 10. Each carries its own pinpoint, so a larger number is more context rather than more documents. | |
| query | Yes | The question or the provision, IN LITHUANIAN - the corpus is Lithuanian and an English query returns confident nonsense rather than nothing. Both forms work: a citation (`CK 6.217`) or a phrase (`esminis sutarties pažeidimas`). There is no separate article filter, and no date filter: this tool answers about law in force NOW. | |
| session | No | The `session` value connect returned, when this client keeps no connection session. Pass it on every Avokata call in this conversation; omit it when the client sends a key. | |
| in_force | No | True (the default) searches only acts in force. Set false to include repealed ones - which is a different question from what governed on a past date; for that, find the act and ask `check_validity` with `on_date`. | |
| act_types | No | Narrow by the register's own type of act, e.g. `Įstatymas`, `Kodeksas`, `Nutarimas`. Omit to search every type. | |
| act_number | No | Search inside ONE act by its official register number (`XII-2603`) or a code abbreviation the map knows (`DK`, `CK`, `CPK`). Lawyers search by Nr.; this is how you restrict to that act without naming every article. | |
| jurisdictions | No | Which jurisdictions to search, as codes (`LT`). Omit for the account's own. Adding a country you do not hold does not fail; the answer names what was unavailable. |