{
    "api": "YAML JSON TOON Database",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "format": "json",
    "category": {
        "id": 27,
        "slug": "law",
        "name": "Law",
        "description": "Legal systems, terminology, and landmark cases.",
        "icon": "shield",
        "created_at": 1783090350,
        "topic": {
            "overview": "Law reference data gives the building blocks of legal systems rather than rules for any one jurisdiction: the families of legal systems (common law, civil law and others), what makes a contract, the vocabulary of criminal law, the kinds of intellectual property and a set of the most cited amendments to the United States Constitution. Law varies by country and changes over time, and the same word can mean different things in different systems, so these entries are orientation and not advice. Whenever a question depends on a particular jurisdiction, the first answer is which one.",
            "key_ideas": [
                {
                    "term": "Jurisdiction",
                    "meaning": "The authority of a court or government over a place, person or subject. Most legal questions begin with whose law applies."
                },
                {
                    "term": "Common law vs civil law",
                    "meaning": "Common law develops through judicial precedent; civil law is organized in codes, with statutes as the primary source."
                },
                {
                    "term": "Burden of proof",
                    "meaning": "Who must prove a claim and to what standard: beyond reasonable doubt in criminal cases, a lower balance-of-probabilities standard in most civil cases."
                },
                {
                    "term": "Mens rea and actus reus",
                    "meaning": "The guilty mind and the guilty act. Most crimes require both."
                },
                {
                    "term": "Consideration",
                    "meaning": "Something of value exchanged to make a promise enforceable in common-law contract law."
                },
                {
                    "term": "Intellectual property",
                    "meaning": "Legal rights over creations of the mind: patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and designs."
                },
                {
                    "term": "Precedent",
                    "meaning": "A prior decision that courts follow in similar cases, binding in common-law systems."
                }
            ],
            "pitfalls": [
                "Applying one country's rule to another. Terms of copyright, felony definitions and contract formalities differ.",
                "Treating a summary as legal advice; real cases turn on facts, jurisdiction and recent changes.",
                "Assuming 'copyright', 'trademark' and 'patent' are interchangeable. They protect different things for different periods.",
                "Confusing the burden of proof in criminal and civil cases."
            ],
            "agent_tips": [
                "Ask for or state the jurisdiction before answering, and say that the answer is general information.",
                "Recommend consulting a qualified lawyer for decisions with legal consequences.",
                "Quote terms and thresholds with the source and year, since statutes are amended."
            ],
            "start_with": [
                "legal-systems-common-vs-civil",
                "intellectual-property-types"
            ]
        }
    },
    "datasets": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "slug": "contract-formation-elements",
            "title": "Contract Formation Elements",
            "description": "Essential elements required to form a valid contract.",
            "tags": "law,contracts,elements",
            "view_count": 0,
            "created_at": 1783090350,
            "entry_count": 11,
            "summary": "The elements that make an agreement an enforceable contract in common-law systems: offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, capacity and legality, together with mutual assent, certainty of terms, the Statute of Frauds, free consent and promissory estoppel."
        },
        {
            "id": 2,
            "slug": "criminal-law-terms",
            "title": "Criminal Law Terms",
            "description": "Fundamental terms in criminal law.",
            "tags": "law,criminal,legal-terms",
            "view_count": 0,
            "created_at": 1783090350,
            "entry_count": 21,
            "summary": "Core terms of criminal law and procedure: felony and misdemeanor, mens rea and actus reus, burden and standard of proof, and plea bargains, plus arraignment, indictment, bail, probable cause, Miranda warnings, habeas corpus, double jeopardy and sentencing terms."
        },
        {
            "id": 3,
            "slug": "intellectual-property-types",
            "title": "Intellectual Property Types",
            "description": "Categories of intellectual property protection.",
            "tags": "law,ip,property",
            "view_count": 0,
            "created_at": 1783090350,
            "entry_count": 9,
            "summary": "The main forms of intellectual property with what each protects and its typical duration: patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets and industrial designs, plus geographical indications, plant variety rights, utility models and trade dress."
        },
        {
            "id": 4,
            "slug": "legal-systems-common-vs-civil",
            "title": "Legal Systems",
            "description": "Major legal systems around the world.",
            "tags": "law,legal-systems,jurisdiction",
            "view_count": 0,
            "created_at": 1783090350,
            "entry_count": 6,
            "summary": "The major families of legal systems: common law, civil law, religious law, customary law and mixed systems, with the origin and characteristics of each, plus socialist legal systems as a historical and residual family."
        },
        {
            "id": 5,
            "slug": "major-us-constitutional-amendments",
            "title": "Major US Constitutional Amendments",
            "description": "Key amendments to the United States Constitution.",
            "tags": "law,us-constitution,amendments",
            "view_count": 0,
            "created_at": 1783090350,
            "entry_count": 21,
            "summary": "Major amendments to the United States Constitution with a one-line description of each: the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-Sixth, together with the Second, Ninth, Tenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Seventh."
        }
    ]
}