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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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.

Statutes do not use ordinary English. “Person” routinely includes corporations, “employee” routinely excludes independent contractors, and the section you are reading almost never says so: the definition lives in a separate section elsewhere in the chapter. Reading a provision without it is how a clause gets misread.

This resolves that section for you and returns its terms, so a term of art can be read as the statute defines it rather than as it sounds.

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

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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Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

API key issued from the developer dashboard. Pass as Authorization: Bearer vq_key_...

Path Parameters

act_id

string

required

Section identifier. Encodes the citation's hierarchy: USC_T42_C21_S1983 is Title 42, Chapter 21, Section 1983, the section a lawyer writes as 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Take it from a /us/statutes/search result rather than assembling it: the title and section are derivable from a citation, but the CHAPTER is not, so hand-built ids usually 404.

Required string length: 3 - 200

Example:

"USC_T42_C21_S1983"

Response

The section plus the defined terms governing it.

Response for GET /us/statutes/section/{act_id}/definitions.

section

StatuteResult · object

required

The section you asked about.

Show child attributes

definitionsSection

StatuteResult · object | null

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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terms

StatuteDefinitionTerm · object[]

Defined terms governing this section, in the order the source lists them.

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total

integer

default:0

How many terms were parsed.

Example:

12

note

string | null

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.

processingTimeMs

number

default:0

Server-side time for this request in milliseconds, excluding network transit. Useful for spotting a slow query; not billed on.

Example:

310.8

creditsConsumed

number

default:0

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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US Statutes

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Authorizations

Path Parameters

Response