Extension: Digital Assets and Digital Inheritance

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-137 · 2026-08-08

Digital Assets and Digital Inheritance states that only transferable digital assets pass by universal succession. This adds an inheritance-specific transferability condition to Kaal's property-style account of digital objects as rival digital information. The abstract does not adopt the Codex definition of rivalry or state how transferability is technically established.

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 extension.
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 only transferable digital assets pass by universal succession. This adds an inheritance-specific transferability condition to Kaal's property-style account of digital objects as rival digital information, while it does not adopt the Codex definition of rivalry or state how transferability is technically established.

Current debate

Digital Assets and Digital Inheritance

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:5886342-015
Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342
Source PDF sha256: dc456a1ce2ea4a356dbcb35dc900ec36be94b8c9b6da4a2c8c268d6301f66359

Evidence and mapping

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

Topics

institutional-design historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0011-remainder-0005-all-0022-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: b3426aefd256bda1eb8f3225fe815cc2d8657070923d07eee327da59a2efaf2b
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