---
title: "Search"
method: GET
path: "/v1/search"
---

# Search

`GET /v1/search`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://recht.nulegal.eu` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://recht.nulegal.eu/v1/search`
- Auth: none declared

Full-text search over federal statutes.

Returns `{query, corrected, results[]}`. For the few queries that a curated page on
this site answers — "wie viel Schmerzensgeld nach einem Unfall", which no statute
answers — the response additionally carries `pages[]`: entries with
`type: "page"`, `kind`, `title`, `url`, `description` and optional `stats`/`updated`. The key is absent otherwise, and `results` is unaffected, so a client that
ignores it is correct. Same match as the hint shown above the results on `/suche`.

**This endpoint searches STATUTES. Decisions live at `/v1/case-search`** — and since
agent-sim 15.09.2026 every response says so with numbers: `cases_available` is how
many decisions match the same query and `cases_url` is the call that returns them.
The measurement behind that: `q=Verzugspauschale` answered `{"results": []}` while
184 decisions used the word, because the term is not in § 288's text (the statute
says "Pauschale in Höhe von 40 Euro") — so an API-first agent concluded the corpus
held nothing on it and left. An empty `results` additionally carries `suggestions`,
the `/v1/suggest` list, rather than being a bare dead end.

`cases_available` is `null` when the count could not be measured, which is NOT zero;
it is capped (`cases_available_capped: true` says so), because it is the same
bounded probe that fills the Rechtsprechung tab header on `/suche`.

An unknown query parameter is a **400**, not a silent drop.

## Query parameters

- `q` string, required
- `limit` integer
- `m` string
- `repealed` boolean

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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