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Statutory text as of any date. Not a snapshot — a timeline.

Local, state, and federal statutes, versioned at the section level. Pass an as_of date and get the text that was in force then, its validity window, and the chain of amendments around it.

GET /v1/statutes/lookup?jurisdiction=fl&citation=768.28&asOf=2019-03-01

200 · hit

"citation": "Fla. Stat. § 501.204""as_of": "2019-03-01""text": "Unfair methods of competition…""valid_from": "2013-07-01""valid_to": null"source_url": "leg.state.fl.us/…""retrieved_at": "2026-07-19T04:12:08Z""sha256": "9f2c…a41d"

200 · explicit miss

"citation": "Guam Code § 1""as_of": "2019-03-01""miss": true"reason": "jurisdiction_not_covered""jurisdiction": "GU""coverage_url": "api.binding.law/v1/law/coverage"

A miss is a structured, machine-readable answer — your agent can branch on it instead of hallucinating past it.

Section-level versioning

Every amendment creates a new version with its own validity window and hash. Walk a section's history forward or backward through the supersession chain.

Citation-native lookup

Query by the citation a lawyer would write — Fla. Stat. § 501.204, 26 U.S.C. § 61 — or browse the code hierarchy structurally.

Verifiable, byte for byte

Each response carries the official source URL and the content hash of what we retrieved. Re-fetch and re-hash any section yourself, any time.

What it's for

Where point-in-time matters

Litigation & claims

The law that applies is the law in force on the date of the events — pull it directly, with a citation you can file.

Compliance lookbacks

Audit decisions against the rules as they stood when the decision was made, not as they read today.

Agent grounding

Give an LLM the exact statutory text with provenance instead of trusting what it remembers from training.

17 jurisdictions live. All 50 states ingesting.

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Point-in-time US law with the receipt attached. Source URL, retrieval time, content hash, and validity dates on every answer.

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