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23 Feb 2001 20:24:02
Zagarna
true

The plaintiff's analysis is accurate, the only interesting thing is that if rule 340 had an only slightly different wording, for example: "NomicHomes can be bought and sold in the same manner as any other Object" , it would permit transferability of NomicHomes, since the only other objects we have in the game are points, and those are transferable :-)

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25 Feb 2001 21:34:57
Jeff Schroeder
true

Rule 234/0 at the time read: "A Request for Judgment is a Personal Order. An Agent may, at any time, initiate judicial proceedings in any matter by making a Request for Judgment. That Agent shall be known as the Plaintiff with regard to the Request. A Request for Judgment consists of a Statement to be judged, and analysis as the Plaintiff deems appropriate. The implicit recipient is the Administrator."  Rule 216/0 also reads: "A Private Order is any Order that is not Legislative, Motive, Administrative, or Judicial."

A RFJ is stated to be a personal order, and rule 216 does not disagree by saying that it is not a private order. [[Double negatives are hard to follow sometimes!!]] There is no explicit definition for Personal Order in the rules. Nonetheless, I can find nothing in the rules that would make the statement false in that there has always been a method for making a RFJ since the game began.

The spirit of the game also seems to confirm this in that due to any possible (not found by this Judge for this Judgement) technicality that might render the statement false, and for creating a precedent, the power of the Judge to overrule a large array of Judgements via a technicality must be limited. I will stop short of making a Judicial Order to this effect and let this Judgement stand as a precedent.

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