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What the law says about police stops, evictions, deposits, debts, work and court dates, in plain words, with the statute on every line. It never tells you what to do.

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50 states, A to Z, clockwise

Every state sits on the same ring under its two letter code, and every outline is drawn to touch the same circle, so Texas and New Jersey are the same size here. Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Tennessee are a directory only for now: the offices, and the reason the law is not here yet.

Tap a code to open its state.

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Pick from a list, A to Z

The pick is kept in this browser only, never in an account or a cookie, and can be changed here any time.

Same question, 3 states

How long does a landlord have to return a deposit?

Same question, different law. That is why every page here is one state’s own statute, never a general answer.

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Why it is built this way

What makes this different

  • Written how people askType it the way you would say it out loud. Can they search my car. Do I have to show ID. Is weed legal now.
  • Contested points stay contestedWhere courts genuinely disagree, it says so and shows both sides. Nothing gets quietly settled to make an answer look tidier.
  • It states the law, never what to doThis is information about what the law says, not advice about your situation. That line is deliberate and it does not move.

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What is built, and what is coming

Each of these lives inside a state’s guide. Pick a state and each one links straight in.

  • Ask a question. Ask in your own words. The answer is built only from a state's sections and the statute text they cite, and a question the guide does not reach comes back unanswered. Free to use; a case or Pro adds more questions a month.
  • Walk it through. Situations taken one decision at a time, with what the law asks of each side at every step.
  • Charge lookup. The offenses people actually meet, each with the section behind it and the most its degree can carry.
  • Every deadline. The periods the law measures, shortest first, each with what starts it and whose period it is.
  • Your clock. Give the date on the paper in your hand and it works out the day the counting reaches. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
  • Where you are. Pick the situation that is yours, put in each date once, and see the stage you are at and the period the statutes set next.
  • Your stop card. Pick up to eight lines of what the law says about a traffic stop, each with its source, big enough to read in a mount and read aloud in one tap.
  • Saved pages. What you saved, the dates you are counting and your own notes, on one page you can print and hand to somebody.
  • Body cam footage. Clips tagged to the situation they belong to, with what each one teaches written on the card. Open in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin so far.
  • Case law. The court decisions a guide rests on, each with the question it answers and what the court held, in plain words.
  • The directory. The statewide offices a guide names, from the attorney general to legal aid, each with what it handles and the way in.
  • The statute watch. Every statute a guide cites is read from the publisher once a week. Your account says which of the sections you saved rest on words that have since moved, and whether this site took the new ones. Free with an account; the email when it happens comes with a case or Pro. Open it →
  • Search every published opinion. Every published opinion from a state's appellate courts, its federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court, searched word for word on CourtListener's free archive, beyond the decisions already explained under Case law.

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