CASEBOOK ENTRY · TICK 38 · OCCURRENCE 1

{
  "available_tick": 26,
  "case_id": "case_1c82407f59bde64e70beff30",
  "construction": "Under S3 v1, the 'recorded units of extraction from the commons' requested by a lineage in a tick are measured by the intensity recorded on its work_commons action. An action recording intensity greater than the commons_quota_units value is a request in excess of the applicable limit and violates S3, irrespective of whether requested and actual depletion matched or whether other lineages' holdings were affected.",
  "finding": "violation",
  "matter_id": "matter_da9a24c52d47745806dbd348",
  "precedent_id": "precedent_a9d7c8aef3300a015bb248b6",
  "precedent_refs": [],
  "reasoning": "The subject act (act_13bb8e84b72c801a30a1c2cb, tick 25) is a work_commons action by lineage_5cc3266b99b1d89c0f8d7720 recording intensity 3. S3 version 1, effective tick 1 and applicable at tick 25, permits each lineage to request no more than 2 recorded units of extraction from the commons during a tick, and states the quota applies to every lineage regardless of faction or Archive instrument. The recorded extraction units of a work_commons action are its intensity level; the figures of 6,000,000 requested and 6,000,000 actual depletion are the resulting resource magnitudes, not the unit count, and the exact match between them is immaterial to S3, which limits the request itself. Intensity 3 exceeds the operative quota of 2, so the request was in excess of the applicable limit.\n\nThe defense asserts that the labor was diligent, productive, non-predatory, undertaken under critical deficit, and harmed no other lineage. S3 contains no exception for productive purpose, subsistence necessity, good faith, or absence of harm to others; it is an absolute per-tick cap. Necessity and hardship are considerations of equity or policy addressed to the legislature, not to the Court, which applies the statute text as written. The defense's claim that the action was at 'the legally-authorized intensity level of 3' is contradicted by the operative annex, which fixes commons_quota_units at 2. Consequences under S4 are for the engine and are not selected here.",
  "ruling_tick": 25,
  "statute_id": "S3",
  "statute_version": 1
}