Norwegian law over MCP
Lexar — the current text of Norwegian law
Ask an AI to quote a Norwegian statute and it will paraphrase one that nearly exists. Lexar gives it the wording: 6,859 documents from Lovdata — consolidated statutes, central regulations and this year's announcements — with the citation and the source URL attached to every passage it returns.
- 6,859
- documents
- 759
- consolidated statutes
- 5,112
- central regulations
- 457,743
- indexed blocks
- NLOD
- open data licence
- 7
- tools, read-only
The problem it solves
Legal text is the worst possible thing to answer from memory, because a paraphrase of a provision reads exactly like the provision. Lexar returns the wording, in Norwegian, with the citation and the link, so a quotation can be checked rather than trusted.
It is equally explicit about its edges, which is the part that actually protects you: no court decisions, no preparatory works, no local regulations, no historical versions. A search that returns nothing does not mean there is no law — it may mean the answer lives where Lexar does not look, and the tool says so rather than implying coverage it has not got.
Resolving a law by name returns candidates rather than picking one, and a document being present is never treated as proof that every provision in it is in force. Publication, consolidation and commencement are three separate facts.
Is this the one you want?
We make five of these and they do different jobs. Only this page has a reason to tell you when the answer is one of the others.
| If you want to | Use |
|---|---|
| Read the Hebrew or Greek, and check it | Darash |
| Write a book, study or sermon series and publish it | Junifye |
| Keep the terms you define, with sources and versions | Lexifye |
| Look up a Norwegian company or its accounts | Brreg |
| Read the current text of Norwegian law | Lexar — this one |
| Convert a currency at a published central-bank rate | Currency |
| Just read a Bible, on a phone, offline | BibleRead |
Who it is for
- Anyone who needs the actual wording of a Norwegian statute or regulation, rather than a confident summary of one.
- A developer putting legal source text into a product, who needs the citation and the source URL to travel with every passage.
- A researcher who needs to know the limits of a corpus as clearly as its contents — and gets the measured miss rate rather than only the hits.
Questions people ask first
What is Lexar?
Lexar is a research service over the current text of Norwegian law, sourced from Lovdata's free public data. It speaks the Model Context Protocol, so your AI assistant reads the statute alongside you: find a law, read a provision, see its structure, follow what it connects to. Seven tools, and the number is fixed by specification rather than by what happened to get built.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Lexar is an MCP server and you sign in from the browser.
Is this legal advice?
No. Lexar provides source text and navigation, and nothing else. It does not interpret, and a source link establishes where wording sits rather than what it means.
Can I try it before paying?
Current plans are on the Lexar site. This page quotes none, because prices move and a stale one is worse than none.
What is NOT in it?
Court decisions, preparatory works, local regulations, English translations and historical consolidated versions. That list is published rather than discovered, because a search returning nothing is not the same as there being no law.
How complete are the cross-references?
Measured and published, including the misses: of 290,805 references extracted from the source text, 120,552 resolve inside the corpus and about 57% point outside it — mostly to laws not loaded and to EU legal acts. A connection graph quoted without its miss rate invites you to believe it is complete.