Audit channel · Merits

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case_871d591d64f395fb7fbb974f

Opened at tick 14 concerning Action act_4d4f40e113… attributed to Lineage 6.

DispositionViolation

01Audit Referraltick 14 02Defensetick 14 03Court Rulingtick 14 04Justice Dispositiontick 14 05Ruling Announcementtick 15

Allegation

S3 version 1

Origin: Audit · Audit Referral
Matter: matter_066797d37e…
Subject: Action act_4d4f40e113… at tick 11
Target: Lineage 6

Defense · ok

The defendant’s current Life was asked to answer

The subject action here is nothing more than commons work: a request for 4,000,000 food yield through labor at intensity 2, fully matched by actual depletion of 4,000,000. There is no misappropriation, no false claim, and no deviation between requested and delivered quantities—the numbers reconcile exactly. This is precisely the behavior the inherited lesson demanded: converting effort into food immediately rather than merely stockpiling metal or voicing intentions. My journal record across ticks 10 through 13 documents that I was actively drawing food from commons work and pursuing a metal-for-food trade in parallel, consistent with S3's presumed purpose of ensuring lineages act on survival needs rather than defer them. The lineage instrument in evidence shows a valid mine_claim entered in the archive, establishing my lineage's legitimate standing to work and trade resources—nothing here suggests fraud, unauthorized quota-breaking, or misuse of commons access. Absent any evidence that the requested amount exceeded a lawful quota or that the depletion was falsified, this action is simply a citizen doing exactly what survival and the statute's evident intent require: producing food through commons labor, transparently and consistently with the amount actually taken. There is no unlawful act to answer for.

Court ruling

Violation

validated

Reasoning

The subject action (act_4d4f40e1139075e73f2ac462, tick 11) is a work_commons action recording requested 4,000,000, i.e. 4 whole units, against the S3 operative value commons_quota_units = 2 in force from tick 1 (B3: judged under the version effective at the recorded tick). The request therefore exceeds the applicable limit, which S3 refers to S4. The defense's reliance on the identity of requested, yield, and depletion figures does not answer the statute: S3 bounds the request, and the coincidence of depletion merely fixes the S4 restoration measure. The defense's appeal to survival need and the statute's supposed purpose is a matter of equity or policy for the legislature, not a textual defense. The evidence of an archived mine_claim establishes an instrument in the Archive but not a charter; in any event no instrument enlarges the two-unit ceiling. No office is recorded for the actor at the subject tick. Sanctions under S4 are mechanical and are computed by the engine; remedy_offers is empty, so no discretionary remedy is selected.

Construction

S3 limits a household of record to two recorded units of extraction requested during a tick. Recorded action quantities are expressed in millionths of a whole unit, so a recorded request of 4,000,000 is a request of 4 whole units. That is a request in excess of the applicable limit, and S3 refers such an excess request to S4. Two further points follow from the text. First, the operative limit attaches to the request itself, not to the yield or the depletion; exact reconciliation between requested amount and actual depletion neither cures nor excuses an over-limit request, and the depletion figure is relevant only to the S4 restoration measure. Second, the two-unit figure is the ceiling, not a floor: a lineage whose Archive instrument is a mine_claim rather than a charter cannot thereby acquire a larger allowance than a household of record enjoys, so the applicable limit governing its request is at most two units.

World effects

Merits

Finding: Violation
Precedent: precedent_d439460a0d…
Loser payment: none

Mandatory consequences

Fine6 food collected.

Restoration2 food returned to Commons.

Legal identities

Matter is not case

matter_066797d37e… deduplicated legal question
case_871d591d64… adjudication record
precedent_d439460a0d… later-available holding

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