initial upload

docs/law/LAW-PHASE-0001.md

@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+# LAW-PHASE-0001
+## Expansion Charter: Roman Law as Reality System
+
+### Status
+Phase-two canonical brief.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Governing Thesis
+
+Law is not modeled primarily as justice.
+
+Law is modeled as an operating system that allocates:
+
+- permissions
+- burdens
+- protections
+- liabilities
+- privileges
+- predictability
+- leverage
+- penalties
+- access
+
+Justice may be claimed.
+
+Reality is what functions.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Why Law After Commerce
+
+Commerce shows exchange.
+
+Law explains why exchange happens differently for different people.
+
+Commerce without law is incomplete.
+
+Law determines:
+
+- who may own
+- who may contract
+- who may inherit
+- who may testify
+- who may sue
+- who may collect debt
+- who may appeal
+- who may register property
+- who may trade certain goods
+- who receives presumption
+
+---
+
+## 3. Participant Experience Goals
+
+Users should feel:
+
+- delay as punishment
+- paperwork as gate
+- status as leverage
+- witnesses as assets
+- ambiguity as opportunity
+- exemptions as privilege
+- predictability as value
+- procedure as weapon
+
+---
+
+## 4. Roman Domains to Simulate
+
+### Commercial Law
+- broken contracts
+- unpaid notes
+- shipping liability
+- warehouse disputes
+- false measures
+- partnership conflicts
+
+### Family Law
+- inheritance
+- dowry
+- guardianship
+- legitimacy
+- adoption
+
+### Civic Law
+- permits
+- market licensing
+- taxes
+- nuisance claims
+- public duties
+
+### Status Law
+- citizen rights
+- freedman limits
+- patron obligations
+- office privilege
+- class distinctions
+
+### Order / Criminal
+- theft
+- fraud
+- assault
+- public disturbance
+- confiscation
+
+---
+
+## 5. Design Rule
+
+Never reduce law to courtroom speeches.
+
+Most law is:
+
+- forms
+- seals
+- witnesses
+- notices
+- queues
+- registrations
+- deadlines
+- fees
+- procedural delay
+- settlement pressure
+
+---
+
+## 6. Scenario Templates
+
+### The Missing Witness
+A case exists, but credibility vanished.
+
+### The Delayed Permit
+Nothing illegal except waiting.
+
+### The Inheritance Seal
+Assets frozen until recognition.
+
+### The Seized Cargo
+Ownership contested at the dock.
+
+### The Freedman Claim
+Status limits contract power.
+
+### The Tax Reassessment
+Paper burden exceeds tax amount.
+
+### The Boundary Dispute
+Land value hidden inside lines.
+
+---
+
+## 7. Mechanics to Encode
+
+- filing delays
+- queue priority
+- witness scarcity
+- reputation modifiers
+- status privileges
+- literacy advantage
+- document possession
+- bribery risk
+- travel to jurisdiction
+- appeal cost
+
+---
+
+## 8. Questions to Elicit
+
+- Who can compel whom?
+- What document matters?
+- Who can afford delay?
+- Who needs settlement now?
+- What right is assumed?
+- What burden is hidden?
+- Is this illegal or merely unenforced?
+- Who benefits from ambiguity?
+
+---
+
+## 9. Writing Standard
+
+Law scenarios must feel practical, not abstract.
+
+Users should sense:
+
+- frustration
+- leverage
+- dependence
+- timing pressure
+- unequal standing
+- administrative fatigue
+
+---
+
+## 10. Success Standard
+
+When users stop asking:
+
+“What is fair?”
+
+and begin asking:
+
+- What governs?
+- What can be enforced?
+- Who can wait?
+- Who cannot?
+
+the phase is working.