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Reference corpus

Legislation and policy, from the bodies that publish it

Acts, regulations, statutory instruments and policy documents — taken from official publishers rather than a summary of them.

48kinstruments
10jurisdictions
1754–2027covered

What’s in it right now

Read from each government's own publication service. Where an instrument is published in several languages, the English text is used, so one law is one document rather than twenty-four.

By jurisdiction
United States4,336 · 9%
Australia850 · 2%
Netherlands850 · 2%
Council of Europe753 · 2%
European Union419 · 0.9%
United States250 · 0.5%
By type
Notice2,440 · 5%
Legislation926 · 2%
European Court of Human Rights753 · 2%
Rule392 · 0.8%
District Court of Appeal of Florida324 · 0.7%
Rechtbank Den Haag230 · 0.5%
By year
20274 · 0.0%
20265,925 · 12%
202512 · 0.0%
202444 · 0.1%
2023172 · 0.4%
202267 · 0.1%

What you can do with it

Find the rule, not an article about it

Search the actual instrument, and land on the section that answers the question.

Track what changed

New and amended instruments as they are published, with the date they were made.

Compare across borders

The same question asked of UK, US and EU material in a single search.

Cite with confidence

Every document carries its official reference and links back to the publisher.

Where it’s used

Legal

The legal workspace, on the roadmap, will read legislation beside case law and your own contracts, so an obligation can be traced from clause to statute.

Legislation is one of several reference collections in the wider askFinz index — see the full collection breakdown for what else is indexed alongside it.

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