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   "text": "Legal garbage collection is stipulated as the systematic review and removal of outdated, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary laws from the legal code, by analogy to garbage collection in computer science.",
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   "text": "Obsolescence in the WDAG system is expressed as gradual loss of weight rather than deletion, which keeps rules revisitable if circumstances change and avoids hasty or ill considered removal decisions.",
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