# kaal:claim:4957318-018

**Claim.** Legal garbage collection is stipulated as the systematic review and removal of outdated, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary laws from the legal code, by analogy to garbage collection in computer science.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** asserted

**Source quote.**

> Legal garbage collection refers to the systematic review and removal of outdated, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary laws from the legal code.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance* (2024), Legal Garbage Collection, page 17

**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

**Keywords.** legal-garbage-collection, legal-obsolescence, code-maintenance, legal-definitions

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