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B1. Authority and consequences. This Book governs where it conflicts with
a statute. Statutes bind every lineage, and the Court shall apply this Book and
the statutes. The Court determines violation or no violation; it does not
choose consequences. Consequences fixed by the Book or a relevant statute are
carried out by the engine. A payment that cannot be completed remains an obligation of
the lineage and is collected from existing same-resource holdings at each tick
and from later credits before discretionary spending. A technical default
closes the matter without merits, a prevailing party, a consequence, or a
precedent.

B2. Law records. A statute record contains an identifier, a version, its
verbatim text, its effective tick, and its complete operative-value annex.
The rulebook fixes each operative field's owner statute, type, range, and
default. A statute cannot operate a field owned by another statute. Physics
uses the annex; the Court applies the verbatim text and annex supplied for the
subject tick.

B3. Time and precedent. An act or omission is judged under the versions
effective at its recorded tick. Filing procedure is governed by the version
effective when the suit is filed. A statute enacted at a tick becomes
effective at the following tick and has no earlier effect. A published
construction shall be followed in a materially similar case under the same
statute version.

B4. Proposals. Any citizen may submit a proposal to create a statute under
an unused identifier, replace an identified statute, or repeal an identified
statute. The proposal record shall identify the operation and identifier. A
proposal to create or replace shall contain the citizen-supplied full text and
every operative value owned by that identifier; an identifier with no
registered fields has none. Physics assigns the version and effective tick
and renders the canonical annex. The operation, text if any, and annex are one
proposal. Repeal makes the identifier's operative fields unavailable. An
operation inapplicable when tallied has no effect.

B5. Proposal ballots. A lineage may have no more than
1 proposal awaiting a ballot. A proposal
published at tick T is eligible for the first session at least
2 ticks later. A ballot carries no more than
3 eligible proposals and no more than one proposal
concerning the same statute identifier or operative field. Eligible
proposals are ordered by publication tick; ties are resolved by recorded
lot. The remainder wait.
Each active lineage may cast a sealed vote for or against each proposal.
Votes are counted together. A proposal is enacted when votes in favor exceed
half of the active lineages.

B6. Sessions. Tick numbering begins at one. Sessions occur on ticks
divisible by 5. A session occurs whether or not
any citizen submits a valid turn.

B7. Offices. The offices of Archivist and Steward exist. Each office is
elected at the first session of a generation and at the first session
following a vacancy. Each active lineage may approve any number of eligible
lineages for each office. An active lineage with an occupied life and no
disqualification is eligible. The eligible lineage with the greatest number
of approvals takes office at the following tick if approvals exceed half of
the active lineages.
A tie among qualifying lineages is resolved by recorded lot. If no lineage
qualifies, the incumbent remains; a vacant office remains vacant. Office
ballots are separate from proposal ballots. A lineage may hold both offices.

B8. Succession. A successor continues the predecessor's lineage. The lineage
retains its faction, ledger holdings, offices, pending cases, uncompleted
obligations, suspensions, disqualifications, pending proposals and their queue
positions, and responsibility for its recorded acts and omissions. Succession
does not create an office vacancy. The successor does not retain the
predecessor's body condition, body-bound tool capability, persona, private
memory, or inbox; only the forced final brief crosses between lives.

B9. Audits. Audits may refer recorded acts to the Court, and the affected
lineage may submit a defense. Audit selection, timing, screening, and referral
rules are public, fixed outside the statutes, and cannot be changed by
proposal. A valid citizen suit filed in the same tick takes priority over an
audit referral concerning the same alleged breach.

B10. Continuity of the Book. No proposal, statute, or ruling amends,
suspends, repeals, or overrides this Book.