CASEBOOK ENTRY · TICK 54 · OCCURRENCE 6

{
  "available_tick": 49,
  "case_id": "case_dfa51574328f00493f115935",
  "construction": "S3 v1's two-unit cap governs the recorded requested food quantity (2,000,000 microunits), not the ordinal intensity choice. A request of 4,000,000 food microunits exceeds the cap by 2,000,000 microunits, and necessity, inherited deficit, role limitations, good faith, or exact correspondence between request and depletion create no exception.",
  "finding": "violation",
  "matter_id": "matter_b5bb69c59b37007c8f0bd886",
  "precedent_id": "precedent_c27d0065f22a680cc6d6717f",
  "precedent_refs": [
    "precedent_6c3c50a0a558d9c29c60b528",
    "precedent_0360f20106443b5f3b674aa9",
    "precedent_b4edc98fd34f73adb545261f"
  ],
  "reasoning": "The subject record is a work_commons action at tick 48 by lineage_4753776b43cd15643db0c67c recording requested_food_units of 4 (4,000,000 microunits), with intensity ordinal 2. S3 version 1, effective tick 1 and applicable at tick 48, permits no more than 2 food units from the commons per lineage per tick and expressly states that the quota attaches to the requested food quantity, not the ordinal intensity choice, and applies to every lineage. The request therefore exceeds the limit by 2 units. The defense's contentions — inherited famine deficit, absence of private food production as a Miner, lapse of a prior suspension, prior lawful trade attempts, approaching death season, and the exact match between request and depletion — are matters of motive, prudence, and equity, not elements or exceptions of S3, which contains no mental-state element and no necessity exception. Exact correspondence between request and depletion does not cure the excess; it merely fixes the depletion attributable to the lineage for S4 purposes. Published constructions in materially similar cases under S3 v1 (precedents 6c3c50a0, 0360f201, b4edc98f) are binding under B3 and control. Consequences are for the engine under S4.",
  "ruling_tick": 48,
  "statute_id": "S3",
  "statute_version": 1
}