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Delaware — Delaware Code

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of Delaware across all 31 active titles and 1,305 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official Delaware General Assembly Division of Research (delcode.delaware.gov) sources.

31 Active Titles
1,305 Distinct Chapters
23,540 Statutory Sections
153,898 Subsections
14,551 Citation Edges
100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid
Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Delaware Code — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Delaware Code. Includes perpetual commercial license rights to the Bronze raw source payloads, Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML archive, Gold Apache Parquet tables (sections, subsections, edges), and SHA-256 provenance manifests.

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Keystone Legal Data — Commercial Dataset License Agreement Standard Single-Snapshot Terms (v2026.10)

1. Grant of Perpetual Single-Snapshot License

Upon payment of the one-time $2,000 USD license fee, Keystone Data Services LLC, d/b/a Keystone Legal Data ("Licensor"), grants Customer ("Licensee") a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide enterprise license to store, query, index, and use the 10/2026 Edition Single-Snapshot Dataset of the Delaware Code (including all delivered Bronze source files, Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML files, Gold Parquet tables, directed citation graph schemas, and cryptographic manifests, collectively the "Licensed Dataset"). Future statutory editions or legislative updates are sold separately as independent snapshots.

2. Permitted Enterprise, Analytics & AI/LLM Uses

Licensee may freely integrate the Licensed Dataset into internal data warehouses, legal research platforms, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, vector databases, knowledge graphs, and machine learning or large language model (LLM) training, fine-tuning, and inference systems, and may display statutory excerpts and citation outputs to end users in the ordinary course of Licensee's products and services.

3. Restrictions on Bulk Redistribution

While the underlying enacted statutory text of the State of Delaware is in the public domain under the government edicts doctrine, the normalized schema, structural subsection shredding, OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML markup, resolved citation graph topology, and cryptographic lineage manifests are proprietary data engineering deliverables of Licensor. Licensee may not resell, sublicense, publish, or redistribute the Licensed Dataset in bulk or as a standalone statutory data product or competing data catalog.

4. Provenance & Disclaimer of Warranties

Every record in the Licensed Dataset is cryptographically sealed via SHA-256 to its source legislative payload as published by the official legislative authority as of the snapshot date. The Licensed Dataset is provided "AS IS" for analytical and informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. Licensor's aggregate liability under this Agreement shall not exceed the license fee paid for the snapshot.

Medallion Architecture Deliverables

Three-tier statutory distribution with end-to-end SHA-256 cryptographic lineage from raw legislative payload to analytical Parquet tables.
Bronze Layer

Immutable Source Payloads

Verbatim section payloads captured from the Delaware General Assembly Division of Research (delcode.delaware.gov) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

  • Source Authority Delaware General Assembly
  • Sealed Payloads 23,540 Files
  • Lineage Manifest bronze_manifest.jsonl
  • Integrity Seal manifest.sha256 (0444)
Silver Layer

OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML

Normalized, schema-validated OASIS LegalDocML (Akoma Ntoso 3.0) XML documents containing strictly enacted statutory text, subsection hierarchy, and session-law history citations.

  • XML Standard OASIS AKN 3.0 (XSD 1.0)
  • Validated Docs 23,540 / 23,540 (100%)
  • History Coverage 22,766 / 23,540 (96.7%)
  • Third-Party IP / Notes 0 (Strictly Stripped)
Gold Layer

Apache Parquet & Citation Graph

Snappy-compressed Apache Parquet tables (sections, subsections, edges) and pre-indexed DuckDB analytical catalog ready for immediate SQL, Polars, PyArrow, or RAG/LLM ingestion.

  • Section Table 23,540 Rows (19.78 MB)
  • Subsection Table 153,898 Rows (18.50 MB)
  • Citation Graph 14,551 Directed Edges
  • DuckDB Catalog keystone_delcode.duckdb
Artifact / Archive Layer / Format Records Size SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet) 23,540 19.78 MB 4f4d956055852f5a30d2c0f4f44454192669ee9dadce4a5fc9b7bb83179f5b13
subsections.parquet Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet) 153,898 18.50 MB 607c4e35735b4ec14a5adcde037148b83b8789d16d59732e22987bebbde17256
edges.parquet Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet) 14,551 248.20 KB f70f310c91df172cb0510cfa0f6c09a40a558030b32b48d6c10ad0df02438747
keystone_delcode_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests) 23,540 files 16.81 MB f584179916f00b3f603c8e244a6d46697ad28bbf847f08aa2fcdbd900b7bb0ab
keystone_delcode_silver_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests) 23,540 docs 21.87 MB 9de5eb648ae198fffe6b69582e609adb62047750ff75cba79c8ae82c2c522328
keystone_delcode_gold_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests) 191,989 32.77 MB a99ec171d742a045a2410d9508d3b2b690ab89b097b16cad419546be08c4951d
keystone_delcode_title8_sample.tar.gz Title 8 Sample Showcase Slice (Corporations) 241 secs 556.94 KB 1c5af6098644eac80912bf8bc74638b4caba16899053c4da6191f9dc9f67b674

Canonical Record Specimen: Del. C. § 1-101

Side-by-side view of Section 1-101 (Designation and citation of Code.) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.
data/silver/delcode/akn_xml/title_01/DELCODE-1-101.xml Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<akomaNtoso xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0"
            xmlns:meta="https://pipeline.local/schema/meta">
  <act name="statute">
    <meta>
      <identification source="#pipeline">
        <FRBRWork>
          <FRBRthis value="/us-de/act/delcode/title-1/section-1-101"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-15" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-DE"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>bc6433a7dbc0b2aa...6109e</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>DELCODE-1-101</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-DE</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Delaware Code</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>1 Del. C. 1953, § 101; 49 Del. Laws, c. 220, § 1</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-101">
        <num>1-101</num>
        <heading>Designation and citation of Code.</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-101__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>(a)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(a) The laws embraced in this title and the following titles,
            parts, chapters, subchapters and sections, as amended from
            time to time, shall constitute and be known as the “Delaware
            Code,” hereinafter referred to as...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-101__para_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>(b)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(b) The Code may be cited by the abbreviation “Del. C.”
            preceded by the number of the title and followed by the number
            of the section, chapter or part in the title. Examples:
            Section 101 of Title 1 may be cited as 1...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
      </section>
    </body>
  </act>
</akomaNtoso>
gold.sections / gold.subsections / gold.edges Gold Parquet Row 
// 1. sections.parquet (Primary Key: doc_id = "DELCODE-1-101")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-DE",
  "doc_id": "DELCODE-1-101",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-DE-DELCODE-1-101",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "General Provisions",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "Delaware Code",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-101",
  "heading": "Designation and citation of Code.",
  "paragraph_count": 2,
  "history_note": "1 Del. C. 1953, § 101; 49 Del. Laws, c. 220, § 1",
  "source_html_sha256": "bc6433a7dbc0b2aa2040a01be61018524205ce137b4a3aaac2947c9168e6109e",
  "akn_sha256": "fe084cd606737d97db7c317a35531cf212a963dcbcbb6e7086bc53cece92d6a8"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (2 rows for DELCODE-1-101)
{
  "doc_id": "DELCODE-1-101",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-101__para_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "(a)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "(a) The laws embraced in this title and the following titles, parts, chapters, subchapters and sections, as amended from time to time, shall constitute and be known as the “Delaware Code,” hereinafter referred to as..."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Delaware Code)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-DE",
  "source_doc_id": "DELCODE-1-103",
  "source_section": "1-103",
  "target_doc_id": "DELCODE-1-211",
  "target_section": "1-211",
  "target_title": 1,
  "citation_count": 1
}

Gold Parquet Schema Specification

Standardized cross-jurisdiction schema shared across all 57 Keystone Legal Data statutory repositories.
Table Column Name Parquet Type Description
sections.parquet jurisdiction / doc_id / universal_doc_id VARCHAR Jurisdiction code (US-DE), collection-scoped primary key (DELCODE-1-101), and global key.
container_type / container_id / container_name VARCHAR Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., title, 1, General Provisions).
chapter_id / chapter_name VARCHAR Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 23,540 sections).
section_number / heading VARCHAR Canonical section number (e.g., 1-101) and cleaned catchline heading.
full_text VARCHAR Complete, newline-delimited statutory text of the section (strictly enacted text only).
history_note VARCHAR Legislative session-law enactment and amendment history citations (22,766 / 23,540 sections populated).
paragraph_count INT64 Number of child subsection paragraphs shredded into subsections.parquet.
source_html_sha256 / akn_sha256 VARCHAR Cryptographic SHA-256 digests linking the Gold row to its exact Silver XML and Bronze raw payload.
subsections.parquet paragraph_eid / paragraph_seq VARCHAR / INT64 OASIS AKN 3.0 element ID (sec_1-101__para_1) and deterministic 1-based sequence order within the section.
enum_label / indent_level VARCHAR / INT64 Extracted structural enumerator (e.g., (a), (1), (A)) and hierarchical indentation depth (1–6).
text VARCHAR Cleaned text of the individual statutory subsection or paragraph.
edges.parquet source_doc_id / target_doc_id VARCHAR Directed citation graph edge resolving in-text statutory references from citing section to cited target section.
source_section / target_section / citation_count VARCHAR / INT64 Canonical section numbers and frequency count of cross-references between the pair.

Complete 31-Title Inventory (Delaware Code)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 31 active titles in the October 2026 edition.
Title Title Heading Chapters Sections
Title 1General Provisions853
Title 2Transportation13213
Title 3Agriculture51743
Title 4Alcoholic Liquors and Marijuana9244
Title 5Banking30740
Title 6Commerce and Trade891,829
Title 7Conservation681,117
Title 8Corporations3241
Title 9Counties651,349
Title 10Courts and Judicial Procedure651,204
Title 11Crimes and Criminal Procedure521,386
Title 12Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations34757
Title 13Domestic Relations21679
Title 14Education861,149
Title 15Elections39653
Title 16Health and Safety1431,810
Title 17Highways19279
Title 18Insurance Code841,731
Title 19Labor25460
Title 20Military and Civil Defense12147
Title 21Motor Vehicles43860
Title 22Municipalities16187
Title 23Navigation and Waters10115
Title 24Professions and Occupations581,396
Title 25Property44689
Title 26Public Utilities11220
Title 27Religion424
Title 28Sports and Amusements11213
Title 29State Government1171,929
Title 30State Taxes41627
Title 31Welfare34496
Total (31 Titles) Complete Delaware Code Corpus 1,305 23,540