Get the defined terms that govern this section
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}{
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{}
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{}
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{}
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"Environmental protection",
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],
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"Preece, Inc."
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}Get the defined terms that govern this section
The term definitions that apply to a section, parsed from its chapter’s definitions section.
Cost: 4 credits. Not-found, failed lookups, chapters with no definitions section, and definitions sections whose text is not yet ingested are all refunded.
A statute’s terms of art are defined in a separate section elsewhere in the chapter, not in the provision you are reading: “person” routinely includes corporations, “employee” routinely excludes independent contractors. This resolves that section and returns its terms.
definitionsSection names where the terms came from, so a definition can be
quoted and cited to the provision that actually carries it.
Scope: strongest on the U.S. Code, where a chapter’s definitions section is
conventionally structured and parses reliably. CFR and state codes are
best-effort: publishers format definitions inconsistently, and a definitions
section we can locate but not parse into terms returns empty with a note and
is refunded. definitionsSection is still populated in that case, so you can
fetch its text directly from /section/{actId}/body and read it yourself.
You are never charged for a chapter whose terms we could not return.
GET
/
api
/
v1
/
us
/
statutes
/
section
/
{act_id}
/
definitions
Get the defined terms that govern this section
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}{
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"citation": "<string>",
"citationShort": "<string>",
"title": "<string>",
"corpusType": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
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"titleNumber": "<string>",
"titleName": "<string>",
"chapter": "<string>",
"chapterName": "<string>",
"sectionNumber": "<string>",
"sectionTitle": "<string>",
"displayPath": "<string>",
"breadcrumb": [
{}
],
"parent": {},
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"subchapterName": "<string>",
"part": "<string>",
"partName": "<string>",
"subpart": "<string>",
"subpartName": "<string>",
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"<string>"
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],
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{}
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{}
],
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"<string>"
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"frSignificant": true,
"frCorrectionOf": "<string>",
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"<string>"
],
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"sourceCredit": "<string>",
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123
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"currentThrough": "<string>",
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{
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"idNo": "DFS-23-26-00013-A",
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}
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"xmlUrl": "<string>",
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"docxUrl": "<string>",
"stateHtmlUrl": "<string>",
"govInfoHtmlUrl": "<string>",
"govInfoPdfUrl": "<string>",
"abstract": "This regulation extends time-limited tolerances for pesticides.",
"agencies": [
"Environmental Protection Agency"
],
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"environmental-protection-agency"
],
"topics": [
"Environmental protection",
"Pesticides and pests"
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"documentTypeLabel": "Rule",
"documentSubtype": "Proclamation",
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"president": "George W. Bush",
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"frVolume": 66,
"frStartPage": 64768,
"frEndPage": 64775,
"wordCount": 6271,
"issuingAgency": "Pollution Control Board",
"adoptingCitations": [
"37 Ill. Reg. 16539"
],
"lawImplemented": "Section 4656.1, Public Resources Code",
"lastAmendedDate": "2013-10-04",
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"caseName": "Dunn-Edwards Corp.",
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"Stipulation"
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"requesters": [
"Preece, Inc."
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ApiKeyAuthApiKeyHeaderApiKeyQuery
API key issued from the developer dashboard. Pass as Authorization: Bearer vq_key_... (preferred).
Path Parameters
Section identifier, e.g. USC_T42_C21_S1983 (Title 42, Chapter 21, Section 1983, which a lawyer writes as 42 U.S.C. § 1983). Take it from a /us/statutes/search or /us/statutes/resolve result.
A citation also works here: 26 U.S.C. § 1, 42 USC 1983 or Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5 is resolved with the same resolver /resolve uses, and the section is served. A citation costs this endpoint's price PLUS the /resolve price (2 credits), charged as its own line whether or not it resolves, exactly as /resolve charges; that is the same total as calling /resolve and then this endpoint, in one round trip. An exact act_id costs only this endpoint's price. When a citation resolves, or when the id only matched after surrounding whitespace, quotes or a trailing period were removed, the response carries resolvedFrom saying what your input was matched as. Check it the way you would check a /resolve answer. A citation containing / cannot travel in a URL path segment; resolve it with GET /us/statutes/resolve instead.
Do not assemble an id from a citation: the title and section are derivable, but the CHAPTER is not, so USC_T26_S1 misses. A miss returns 404 with reason and, where the section exists under another id, didYouMean.
State session laws (acts as enacted, ids starting SSL_) are not code sections: read them at /us/session-laws/{sessionLawId}.
Required string length:
3 - 200Example:
"USC_T42_C21_S1983"
Response
The section plus the defined terms governing it.
Response for GET /us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions.
The section you asked about.
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The sibling section the terms were parsed from. Null when the chapter has no definitions section, in which case terms is empty and the call is refunded.
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Defined terms governing this section, in the order the source lists them.
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How many terms were parsed.
Example:
12
Set only when no terms could be returned, explaining which step came up empty: the chapter has no definitions section, or its text is not ingested yet. The call is refunded in both cases.
Null when the section is exactly the act_id you sent. Otherwise how your input was matched: a citation, or an act_id with transport damage (whitespace, quotes, a trailing period) removed.
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Server-side time for this request in milliseconds, excluding network transit. Useful for spotting a slow query; not billed on.
Example:
310.8
Credits actually charged for this call. Read it rather than assuming the list price: failed and refunded work bills 0.
Example:
4
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