Colombian law lookup What does this law say?
Paste a Colombian law's identifier, for example LEY-1266-2008, and read its full text along with the law type, publication date, status and article count. Free, no login.
The full text of the law
Looking up a Colombian law by its identifier returns the law's full record: official title and short title, type (ley, decreto, resolución), publication date, status, jurisdiction, department, article count, the official source reference, the date the record was last refreshed, and the complete text, article by article. Useful for citing an exact article in a filing, a contract or a credit policy, confirming a law is still in force, and reading the wording as written instead of chasing loose copies online.
Law identity
Official title, short title, law type and jurisdiction.
Status and scope
Status of the law, publication date, department and article count.
Full text
The complete text of the law, with its official source reference and the date the record was last refreshed.
Common questions
- Where does the text of the law come from?
- From Legalize, which consolidates Colombian legislation as structured data. Croma queries that source and returns the law structured, with its official source reference included in the result. It is an informational lookup: for legal purposes check the official publication.
- Is it free? Are there any limits?
- Yes, it is free and needs no account. There is only a cap on lookups per hour from the same connection to prevent abuse, and one law per lookup. For volume, use the Croma API.
- Where do I find a law's identifier?
- In the Colombian laws search tool: type the topic or the name of the law, for example habeas data, then copy the identifier from the result (in the LEY-1266-2008 format) and paste it here.
- Why does the lookup come back empty?
- Because no record matches that identifier exactly. The field is case sensitive, so enter it exactly as it appears in the search, with the type, number and year. If it still does not appear, the law is not in the source yet.
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