Open Lectorium
Ask a question and get the relevant provisions back, each linked to its source.
Main siteEesti keeles
The main site - and the assistant itself - work in Estonian.
What this is
Estonian law is public and freely available - but finding the provision that actually answers your question means knowing which act to open and how the text is worded. Lectorium closes that gap: ask in plain Estonian, get the relevant sections back with a link to the source.
It is built for people dealing with an ordinary legal question - an employment contract, a consumer dispute, an inheritance matter - who need to know what the law says before deciding whether they need a lawyer at all.
How it works
Lectorium is a retrieval-grounded system. Questions are matched against the indexed text of Estonian acts by meaning rather than keywords alone, and the answer is constructed from the provisions actually retrieved. Nothing is answered from memory of the law - only from the text in front of it.
Twenty-two acts are indexed today, covering employment, occupational safety, collective agreements, public service, youth work, the law of obligations, consumer protection, succession, family law, apartment ownership and apartment associations, child protection, data protection, non-profit associations, property law, social welfare, animal protection, the general part of the civil code, the building code - including its annex tables - and, since August 2026, health: how health services are organised, what health insurance entitles you to, compensation for harm caused by treatment, and the work ability allowance. The texts come from Riigi Teataja and are refreshed as the law changes.
Sebastian - someone who asks, and never answers
Some questions have two different correct answers depending on who is asking. "How long must the daily rest period be?" means one thing under the Employment Contracts Act and another under the Civil Service Act. Lectorium cannot know which you are, and until now it simply picked.
Sebastian now asks. He appears below the answer - the law has already been quoted and cited - and offers one choice. Tap it and the search runs again knowing what you meant. Ignore him and the first answer stands, exactly as before.
He never answers a legal question. He does not summarise, advise or explain, and he does not write his own sentences - everything he can say is written by hand in advance. The answer still comes from the act, word for word, with a link. He is a middleman, not a lawyer.
"Kas küsid töötajana või ametnikuna?"
Olen töötaja
Olen ametnik
He is deliberately a rare visitor: in our measurements he appears on about four questions in a hundred - only where retrieval is genuinely undecided between two acts. The rest of the time he is nowhere to be seen.
The guarantees
- No answer without a source. An answer is never returned with an empty citation list - that constraint is enforced in the response layer, not left to the model.
- Silence over speculation. If no retrieved provision is a close enough match, Lectorium says it found nothing clearly relevant instead of producing a confident-sounding guess.
- Recently amended provisions are flagged, so you don't rely on a version that has since changed.
- Every citation is checkable - each one links to the current text in Riigi Teataja.
Not legal advice
Lectorium's answers are generated automatically from published legal texts and do not constitute legal advice. Estonia regulates who may provide legal counsel. Always verify the current wording of any cited provision, and consult a qualified lawyer for advice on your situation.
Who builds it
Lectorium is built by Crowned Phoenix.