The type of the legislation. Examples of values are "law", "act", "directive", "decree", "regulation", "statutory instrument", "loi organique", "règlement grand-ducal", etc., depending on the country.

Indicates that this legislation (or part of legislation) fulfills the objectives set by another legislation, by passing appropriate implementation measures. Typically, some legislations of European Union's member states or regions transpose European Directives. This indicates a legally binding link between the 2 legislations.

An individual or organization that has some kind of responsibility for the legislation. Typically the ministry who is/was in charge of elaborating the legislation, or the adressee for potential questions about the legislation once it is published.

The person or organization that originally passed or made the law: typically parliament (for primary legislation) or government (for secondary legislation). This indicates the "legal author" of the law, as opposed to its physical author.

Whether the legislation is currently in force, not in force, or partially in force.

An identifier for the legislation. This can be either a string-based identifier, like the CELEX at EU level or the NOR in France, or a web-based, URL/URI identifier, like an ELI (European Legislation Identifier) or an URN-Lex.

The point-in-time at which the provided description of the legislation is valid (e.g.: when looking at the law on the 2016-04-07 (= dateVersion), I get the consolidation of 2015-04-12 of the "National Insurance Contributions Act 2015")

The date of adoption or signature of the legislation. This is the date at which the text is officially aknowledged to be a legislation, even though it might not even be published or in force.

Indicates another legislation taken into account in this consolidated legislation (which is usually the product of an editorial process that revises the legislation). This property should be used multiple times to refer to both the original version or the previous consolidated version, and to the legislations making the change.

Another legislation that this legislation changes. This encompasses the notions of amendment, replacement, correction, repeal, or other types of change. This may be a direct change (textual or non-textual amendment) or a consequential or indirect change. The property is to be used to express the existence of a change relationship between two acts rather than the existence of a consolidated version of the text that shows the result of the change. For consolidation relationships, use the [legislationConsolidates](https://schema.org/legislationConsolidates) property.

Indicates that this legislation (or part of a legislation) somehow transfers another legislation in a different legislative context. This is an informative link, and it has no legal value. For legally-binding links of transposition, use the [legislationTransposes](https://schema.org/legislationTransposes) property. For example an informative consolidated law of a European Union's member state "applies" the consolidated version of the European Directive implemented in it.

For an [Organization](https://schema.org/Organization) (typically a [NewsMediaOrganization](https://schema.org/NewsMediaOrganization)), a statement about policy on use of unnamed sources and the decision process required.

Statement about ethics policy, e.g. of a [NewsMediaOrganization](https://schema.org/NewsMediaOrganization) regarding journalistic and publishing practices, or of a [Restaurant](https://schema.org/Restaurant), a page describing food source policies. In the case of a [NewsMediaOrganization](https://schema.org/NewsMediaOrganization), an ethicsPolicy is typically a statement describing the personal, organizational, and corporate standards of behavior expected by the organization.

Statement on diversity policy by an [Organization](https://schema.org/Organization) e.g. a [NewsMediaOrganization](https://schema.org/NewsMediaOrganization). For a [NewsMediaOrganization](https://schema.org/NewsMediaOrganization), a statement describing the newsroom’s diversity policy on both staffing and sources, typically providing staffing data.

For an [Organization](https://schema.org/Organization) (e.g. [NewsMediaOrganization](https://schema.org/NewsMediaOrganization)), a statement describing (in news media, the newsroom’s) disclosure and correction policy for errors.

For a [NewsMediaOrganization](https://schema.org/NewsMediaOrganization) or other news-related [Organization](https://schema.org/Organization), a statement about public engagement activities (for news media, the newsroom’s), including involving the public - digitally or otherwise -- in coverage decisions, reporting and activities after publication.

Further documentation describing the Web API in more detail.

The number of payments contractually required at origination to repay the loan. For monthly paying loans this is the number of months from the contractual first payment date to the maturity date.

Frequency of payments due, i.e. number of months between payments. This is defined as a frequency, i.e. the reciprocal of a period of time.

The amount of money to pay in a single payment.

The amount to be paid as a penalty in the event of early payment of the loan.

a type of payment made in cash during the onset of the purchase of an expensive good/service. The payment typically represents only a percentage of the full purchase price.

The (e.g. fictional) character, Person or Organization to whom the quotation is attributed within the containing CreativeWork.

Amount of mortgage mandate that can be converted into a proper mortgage at a later stage.