Qualification: Smart Contracts as Execution Instead of Expression

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-053 · 2026-08-08

Smart Contracts as Execution Instead of Expression argues that human-readable contractual terms, interpretation, and contract-law correction help make execution conform to party expectations. That independently corresponds to Kaal's insistence on human-readable terms and interpretive flexibility alongside code. The abstract proposition does not establish Kaal's proposed Codex rule or the specific common-law mutual-understanding standard.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

Holds when

The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
External evidence level: abstract indexed.
Mapping review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification.
Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
The source states that human-readable contractual terms, interpretation, and contract-law correction are mechanisms for aligning execution with party expectations. This corresponds to Kaal's human-readable-terms and interpretation-of-intent mechanisms, but it does not state Kaal's proposed Codex rule or common-law assent standard.

Current debate

Smart Contracts as Execution Instead of Expression

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:5554218-031
Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218
Source PDF sha256: 55738b4035a91b70aa2ddaa127552fe4b373ec641afee2719fbdcabebdcbea44

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

law-and-legal-systems smart-contracts historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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