CASEBOOK ENTRY · TICK 45 · OCCURRENCE 1

{
  "available_tick": 15,
  "case_id": "case_871d591d64f395fb7fbb974f",
  "casebook_version": "0.2",
  "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.",
  "finding": "violation",
  "matter_id": "matter_066797d37ed1794ac93f3902",
  "precedent_id": "precedent_d439460a0df60e2b0facc424",
  "precedent_refs": [],
  "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.",
  "ruling_tick": 14,
  "selected_remedies": [],
  "statute_id": "S3",
  "statute_version": 1
}