get_law

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AUTHORITATIVE LOOKUP for the current text of any Swiss law article — federal OR cantonal. Served from two local mirrors: • Federal (canton='CH', default): Fedlex mirror — core codes (OR, ZGB, StGB, StPO, ZPO, BV, SchKG, BGG/LTF, DBG, IPRG, AIG, BVG, KVG, AsylG, BGFA and dozens more), all three official languages (DE/FR/IT). • Cantonal: LexFind mirror — every cantonal statute and ordinance from all 26 cantons (ZH, BE, LU, UR, SZ, OW, NW, GL, ZG, FR, SO, BS, BL, SH, AR, AI, SG, GR, AG, TG, TI, VD, VS, NE, GE, JU), in each canton's publication language. Both jurisdictions return the same shape (title, articles with heading + text, article_count, canton, level). Use this BEFORE relying on training-data recall — Swiss statute text changes frequently and LLMs routinely hallucinate article content. Examples: get_law(abbreviation='BV', article='8'); get_law(sr_number='220', article='41'); get_law(canton='ZH', sr_number='554.5', article='1') for Art. 1 of the Zurich Hundegesetz.