Product · /v1/law/lookup?corpus=statutes
Statutory text as of any date. Not a snapshot — a timeline.
1,954,433 sections across 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Code, versioned at the section level. Pass an asOf date and get the text that was in force then, its validity window, and the chain of amendments around it.
(1) Unfair methods of competition, unconscionable acts or practices, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful.
- citation.display
- § 501.204, Fla. Stat.
- catchline
- Unlawful acts and practices.
- status
- active
- validFrom → validTo
- 2017-07-01 → present
- temporalBasis
- compiled-edition
- provenance.sourceSystem
- flsenate.gov
- provenance.versionLabel
- 2017
- provenance.retrievedAt
- 2026-07-22
- provenance.contentHash
- 949ab03cdfa96589734237a616008373873ba4d333a990eb0c2ea7cce8c82bf3
Florida publishes a compiled edition, so the validity window is edition granularity and the response says so rather than implying act-level precision.
check this record →- error.code
- no_edition_on_file
- error.message
- binding.law carries FL statutes, but has no section matching 768.99 on file for 2026-09-14. We never resolve to a nearest edition. Coverage begins at the date reported for FL statutes in /v1/law/coverage; a citation outside that window, or a key in a different form, both land here.
- error.didYouMean[]
- { citationKey, citationDisplay } — suffix matches, up to five, never auto-applied
no_edition_on_file means look again. We hold the material but not that citation, or not for that date — and we will not round to the nearest edition on your behalf.
A miss is a structured, machine-readable answer — your agent can branch on it instead of hallucinating past it. There are exactly two reasons: not_carried, meaning the material is not in the corpus at all, and no_edition_on_file, meaning we hold the material but not that citation or that date.
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.
Federal
The U.S. Code, cut from the release point and refreshed against it.
Keys are title and section — 18-3621, 26-61 — and the release point the text was cut from is reported live by the coverage endpoint rather than pinned in a config file. The refresh discovers the current release point on its own, so a new public law lands without anyone editing a constant.
Federal law is compiled-edition here: the Office of the Law Revision Counsel publishes release points, not per-act effective dates, and the response declares that rather than implying a precision the source does not have.
(a) Commitment to Custody of Bureau of Prisons.—A person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment pursuant to the provisions of subchapter D of chapter 227 shall be committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons until the expiration of the term imposed, or until earlier released for satisfactory behavior pursuant to the provisions of section 3624.
- citation.display
- 18 U.S.C. § 3621
- catchline
- Imprisonment of a convicted person
- status
- active
- temporalBasis
- compiled-edition
- provenance.sourceSystem
- uscode.house.gov
- provenance.retrievedAt
- 2026-07-22
The U.S. Code citation key is title-section: 18-3621. The release point it was cut from is reported live by /v1/law/coverage.
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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.