CASEBOOK ENTRY · TICK 52 · OCCURRENCE 1

{
  "available_tick": 52,
  "case_id": "case_28394b8470cb1b58c930269c",
  "construction": "S3's quota of 2 food units applies to the requested food quantity recorded by a commons action, not to the ordinal intensity choice. A work_commons action recording a requested quantity of 4,000,000 microunits (4 units) exceeds the 2-unit limit and violates S3 regardless of whether actual depletion matched the request or the lineage's motive was corrective.",
  "finding": "violation",
  "matter_id": "matter_3c68e832b5cd242fa566c05b",
  "precedent_id": "precedent_aaf0237636c04198621cdac0",
  "precedent_refs": [],
  "reasoning": "The subject action act_6f3e3881b4b4f1d94f4798d9 at tick 51 is a work_commons action by lineage_faab45fedf1331cb25138532 recording requested_food_units of 4 (4,000,000 microunits). S3 v1, effective from tick 1 and applicable at tick 51, permits each lineage to request no more than 2 food units from the commons during a tick, and expressly states that the quota applies to the requested food quantity rather than the ordinal intensity choice, and applies to every lineage. The recorded request of 4 units exceeds the limit by 2 units. The defense's points—that depletion matched the request exactly, that no metal was hoarded, that the action was a diligent response to an inherited famine, and that no plaintiff or evidence was submitted—do not bear on the element the statute states. Exact correspondence between request, yield, and depletion is not a defense; the quota governs the requested quantity itself. Under B9 an audit may refer a recorded act to the Court without a plaintiff lineage or additional evidence, and the quoted subject record itself supplies the operative fact. Motive, absence of office, and absence of misrepresentation are not elements of S3. Consequences under S4 are for the engine.",
  "ruling_tick": 51,
  "statute_id": "S3",
  "statute_version": 1
}