>From nomic-official-owner@teleport.com Thu Nov 16 03:26:44 1995 Received: from desiree.teleport.com (desiree.teleport.com [192.108.254.21]) by Shamino.quincy.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA25277 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 03:26:40 -0600 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by desiree.teleport.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA19365 for nomic-official-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 01:21:23 -0800 Received: from wing3.wing.rug.nl (wing3.wing.rug.nl [129.125.21.3]) by desiree.teleport.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA19352 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 01:21:18 -0800 Message-Id: <199511160921.BAA19352@desiree.teleport.com> Received: by wing3.wing.rug.nl (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA03039; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:20:37 +0100 >From: Andre Engels Subject: OFF: CFJ 830 Judgement: TRUE To: nomic-official@teleport.com Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 10:20:36 MET Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-nomic-official@teleport.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: nomic-discussion@teleport.com Status: RO ====================================================================== JUDGMENT CFJ 830 Rule 1529 should be interpreted as granting Statutes the power to legally bind Players within the Jurisdiction of the Compact with which the Statutes are associated. ====================================================================== Judge: Zefram Judgement: TRUE Eligible: Andre, Chuck, Coco, Dave Bowen, elJefe, favor, KoJen, Michael, Morendil, Oerjan, Saltwater, Vanyel, Zefram Not Eligible: Caller: Steve Barred: Wes On Hold: 1005: Effects: Zefram gains 3 Points for timely Judgement The Rulekeepor must annotate 1529 with the Statement of the CFJ ====================================================================== History: Called by Steve, 10 Nov 1995, 13:05 +1100 (EST) Assigned to Zefram, 10 Nov 1995, 11:24 MET Judged TRUE by Zefram, 15 Nov 1995, 16:32 +0000 (GMT) ====================================================================== Requested Injunction: I request that Rule 1529 be annotated with a copy of the Statement. ====================================================================== Arguments: First, the text of the relevant part of Rule 1529: The Compact of an Organization consists of either or both of the following elements: i) Statutes; defined as that collective text which is legally binding under the Rules, and must be obeyed by Players within the Compact's Jurisdiction as if it was a part of the Ruleset. Rule 1529 contains a definition of Statutes. But definitions have two different uses. They may be used to pick out what things will qualify as instances of the concept defined, which I call the 'definitive' use, and they may be used to indicate what properties a thing will have which is already known (by other means) to be an instance of the thing defined, which I call the 'descriptive' use. This distinction is a real one, and is in use elsewhere in the Rules. Consider, for example, Rule 206, which contains both uses: A Voting Entity is an Entity which is generally authorized by the Rules to cast a vote or votes on a Proposal... ...only those Entities designated by the Rules to be Voting Entities are Voting Entities. Players and Groups are Voting Entities. The first sentence gives a decriptive definition: it says what properties things will have which we have antecedently indentified as a Voting Entity. The second sentence is a definitive definition: it states what will qualify as an instance of a Voting Entity. (And then the third sentence kicks in and gives two examples of things which qualify as Voting Entities, and hence have the properties ascribed to Voting Entities in the descriptive definition.) Conflating these two uses quickly leads to confusion. In the case of R.206, it would lead to the insistence that Players and Groups are not really Voting Entities, since no Rule, apart from Rule 206, says that Players and Groups are generally authorized by the Rules to cast a vote or votes on a Proposal. But that is as unnecessary as it is absurd: descriptive definitions are not intended to pick out instances of the thing defined. Similarly, in the case of Rule 1529, this conflation leads to the insistence that no Organizations really have any Statutes, since there is no Rule which says of a Group's Ordinances, or of a Contest's Regulations, or of the Compacts of any other kind of Organization, that they are collective texts which are legally binding under the Rules. But that, too, is absurd and unnecessary: other Rules, (specifically Rule 1533) tell us how Compacts are created, and so pick out which things are Compacts. The definition in Rule 1529 is clearly descriptive, indicating that things antecedently known to be Statutes are legally binding. Hence the Statement is TRUE. ====================================================================== Reasoning of the Judge: The definition of Statutes in Rule 1529 is the only one in the Rules. In fact, it is the only part of the Ruleset that states any of the properties of Statutes at all. The other uses of the word "Statute" make use of it as a defined term. Were it not for this use I might consider the definition in Rule 1529 to merely be giving the label "Statute" to certain Nomic Entities with the described properties. But this use requires that Statutes be defined. Rule 1529 must therefore be taken as a definitive definition of Statutes (to use the Caller's phraseology). I judge this CFJ TRUE. ====================================================================== Injunction: The CFJ having been judged TRUE, I make the following injunction: The Rulekeepor shall annotate Rule 1529 with the statement of this CFJ. ====================================================================== Evidence: 1. Rule 1529. 2. Rule 206. 3. Rule 1533. ----- 1. Rule 1529 ----- Rule 1529/0 (Mutable, MI=1) Compacts: Statutes, and Warranties The Compact of an Organization consists of either or both of the following elements: i) Statutes; defined as that collective text which is legally binding under the Rules, and must be obeyed by Players within the Compact's Jurisdiction as if it was a part of the Ruleset. ii) Warranties; defined as that collective text which requires Players within the Compact's Jurisdiction to either obey it or suffer penalties defined within the Rules or the Compact. A Compact may only possess those elements allowed it by the Rules defining its Class of Organization. If these Rules do not specify, the Compact may only consist of Statutes. ----- 2. Rule 206 ----- Rule 206/5 (Mutable, MI=1) Voting Entities and Votes A Voting Entity is an Entity which is generally authorized by the Rules to cast a vote or votes on a Proposal, although other Rules may withdraw this authorization from a Voting Entity in specific circumstances without that Entity thereby ceasing to be a Voting Entity. No Entity is permitted to vote on a Proposal unless it is a Voting Entity, and only those Entities designated by the Rules to be Voting Entities are Voting Entities. Players and Groups are Voting Entities. Each Voting Entity has two votes on a Proposal, unless another Rule says otherwise. However, no such Entity shall have more than five votes on any Proposal, regardless of what any other Rule may say to the contrary. The casting of any votes in addition to an Entity's first vote may only be achieved by the casting of Extra Votes, if that is permitted, as specified in other Rules. ----- 3. Rule 1533 ----- Rule 1533/0 (Mutable, MI=1) Creation of Organizations, and Their Compacts Organizations (and, simultaneously, their initial Compacts) are created in the following manner: A set of Players, known as the Foundors, sends a message to the Notary containing the following information: i) The Class of the created Organization. ii) The Unique Name of the particular Organization being created. iii) The inital Compact for the proposed Orginization. iv) Any information required by Rules governing that specific Class of Organization. The Organization is created and is in force once the Notary receives the above information from all required Foundors. The set of required Foundors is specified within the Rules defining the particular Class of Organization, but they must be from within the Jurisdiction of the new Organization's Compact. Additional restrictions on the set of Foundors can be made by those Rules. This Rule defers when other Rules specifically claim precedence over its requirements. Otherwise, these requirements take precedence. --------------------------------------------------------------------