# kaal:claim:4957318-001

**Claim.** Legal accumulation is produced by a specific legislative practice: new regulations are layered over existing ones without repealing outdated provisions. The resulting corpus is more complex and less transparent, which raises compliance costs for individuals and businesses.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- modern legislative systems that enact new law faster than they repeal old law

**Source quote.**

> However, the practice of layering new regulations over existing ones without repealing outdated provisions leads to legal accumulation. This accumulation makes the legal system more complex and less transparent, increasing the compliance costs for individuals and businesses.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance* (2024), Introduction, page 3

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318

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**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, compliance

**Keywords.** hyperlexis, legal-accumulation, compliance-costs, regulatory-complexity, legal-growth

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