Search holdings

What it does

search_holdings searches extracted holdings (právne vety) from Slovak court decisions. A holding is the generalized rule one decision applied — the transferable point of law, separated from the facts of that case. Each hit carries the holding as a paraphrase, the court's own passage it was extracted from, the source decision, and whether that decision sits in the current authority selection.

Like every tool in this connector, it is read-only, covers Slovak law only, and its output is informational, not legal advice.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	Yes	Natural-language description of the legal point.
`act_ref`	string	No	Raw act reference as courts write it, e.g. `40/1964 Zb.` — restricts hits to holdings applying that act.
`section`	string	No	Bare paragraph number (e.g. `711`). Applies only together with `act_ref`.
`limit`	integer	No	Max hits (default 10).

Returns

{
  "results": [
    {
      "holding_text": "…paraphrase…",
      "evidence": { "passage": "…the court's own wording…" },
      "decision": {
        "case_file_number": "…",
        "court": "…",
        "date": "…",
        "url": "…or empty"
      },
      "in_authority_selection": true,
      "admission_routes": ["…"]
    }
  ]
}

Example

Asked whether a lease can be terminated without stating a reason, the calling AI runs search_holdings with query: "výpoveď nájmu bez uvedenia dôvodu" and act_ref: "40/1964 Zb.", then presents the holdings as rules the courts applied, quoting only evidence.passage as the court's words.

Notes

holding_text is a paraphrase — present it as one; only evidence.passage may be quoted as the court's wording.
decision.url is empty about half the time; when it is, there is no public page to check the passage against, and the AI should say so.
An empty result is not proof that no case law exists — this index covers roughly 3 % of the corpus. Fall back to Search case law.
Debits your monthly corpus quota (see Usage limits).