# kaal:claim:3441904-031

**Claim.** The cost of translating coded contractual intent into natural language has the potential to become overwhelming for the existing centralized legal infrastructure, because coded intent may be unclear and natural language intent often cannot be used for interpretation.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- smart contract disputes brought before existing courts and regulators

**Source quote.**

> Coded contractual intent may be unclear and natural language intent can often not be used for interpretation.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance* (2019), IV.1 Shortcomings of Centralized Governance in Decentralized Systems, page 26

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e6b562527f7f19accaa35491db0a0db168b6a936755e1dca424e9f30bee7a815` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Blockchain-Based%20Corporate%20Governance.pdf

**Failure mode.** translation-cost-overload  (family: privacy-and-surveillance-risk)

**Topics.** smart-contracts

**Keywords.** natural-language, contract-interpretation, adjudication, smart-contracts

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-010

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