How the Four-Month Membership Works: Instruments, Monthly Uses and Carryover
The membership on Legalise is a single paid offer: a four-month term for Rs. 6250. What is less obvious from the price alone is how the term is used, because it is not a flat monthly subscription with a clock that resets on the same calendar date. It is a fixed 120-day contract divided into four 30-day periods, each with its own monthly uses, and the difference matters once you are near the end of one.
What an instrument is
Every generated document, every compiled briefing and every Matter Reviewer report uses one instrument. You are charged once for the thing you asked for, however much work it took to deliver it properly.
Monthly uses, not one long allowance
The 120-day term is divided into four periods of 30 days each, and each period carries its own monthly uses of 120 instruments. Nothing is charged again at the 30-day mark, and the reset does not follow calendar months, so a period that starts in mid-June ends in mid-July rather than at the end of June.
What happens to what you do not use
Within an active term, unused instruments are not simply lost at the end of a period. Half of what remains carries forward into the next one, with no cap on how much can carry over that way, so a quiet month does not erase a busy one that follows it.
When the term itself ends and you renew into a fresh one, the carryover rule changes: up to 100 unused instruments are preserved into the new term. This is deliberately a smaller number than the uncapped mid-term carryover, because a renewal is a new contract rather than a continuation of the old term.
Renewing on time
The renewal window opens seven days before the term's expiry date and stays open for seven days after it. Renewing inside that window is treated as a continuation: your monthly uses and carryover follow the rules above. If the term lapses past that window without renewal, the account does not stop working. It falls back to the Complimentary tier, covered in The Complimentary Account: What Ten Instruments Actually Gets You, and a fresh paid term afterward starts clean rather than carrying anything forward.
Added instruments are a separate balance
Separately from the monthly uses, an account can hold added instruments. These are granted directly, typically to make up for a service issue, and they behave differently from the monthly uses in three ways: they never expire, they are used only after the monthly uses are exhausted, and they can be used by an account in any state, including one that has fallen back to the Complimentary tier. An added instrument drafts to the same standard as any other paid instrument, whichever tier holds it.
Why this is worth understanding before you need it
None of this matters until the week you are drafting more than usual, or the week your renewal date quietly passes while you are in the middle of a matter. Knowing that half of what you do not use follows you into the next month, and that a missed renewal is a soft fallback rather than a hard stop, is the difference between planning around the membership and being surprised by it.