# Legal obsolescence

`kaal:entity:legal-obsolescence`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `legal-obsolescence`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2024 to 2024.

**2024**

- [4957318-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-018) [definitional/asserted] -- Legal garbage collection is stipulated as the systematic review and removal of outdated, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary laws from the legal code, by analogy to garbage collection in computer science.
  > Legal garbage collection refers to the systematic review and removal of outdated, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary laws from the legal code.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318
- [4957318-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-037) [design/asserted] -- 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.
  > Instead, less relevant rules gradually lose weight, allowing them to be revisited if circumstances change, thus maintaining institutional relevance while avoiding hasty or ill-considered decisions.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318

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