Legal corpus: U.S. Code titles 1–11 from pinned OLRC XML (11,050 sections)

Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via
Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot ->
per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched.
LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legal/us/code/title-01/chapter-1/section-3.md

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+title: "1 U.S.C. § 3"
+description: "“Vessel” as including all means of water transportation"
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+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 1
+title_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
+chapter_number: "1"
+chapter_name: "RULES OF CONSTRUCTION"
+section: "3"
+citation: "1 U.S.C. § 3"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
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+---
+
+# 1 U.S.C. § 3 - “Vessel” as including all means of water transportation
+
+## Text
+
+The word “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.
+
+(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)