# kaal:claim:5887242-037

**Claim.** Every large-scale legal order eventually accumulates dead-letter provisions, contradictory clauses and rules premised on obsolete technology; national codes require heroic political effort to prune, and private codes either never update or fork into competing versions.

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

**Source quote.**

> Every large-scale legal order eventually accumulates dead-letter provisions, contradictory clauses, and legacy rules premised on obsolete technology. National codes require heroic political efforts to prune. Private codes either never update or fork into competing versions.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted* (2025), Chapter V.4, page 25

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

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**Failure mode.** dead-letter-accumulation  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security, systemic-risk

**Keywords.** dead-letter-rules, pruning, forking, ossification

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