Two questions

Every holding must answer two questions.

Provenance. Did the record track the holder’s own capacity — labour done, risk taken, work made — or was it written over someone else’s prior record?

Propagation. What does the holding do, now, to the room everyone else has to move in?

Pass both and the holding is cooperative. Fail either and it is parasitic. The verdict reads the worse of the two.

The two are independent. Clean provenance can propagate parasitically. Failing provenance can propagate cooperatively. Where a holding is mixed across scales, the failure is read where it occurs and corrected there. Not flattened into one verdict on the whole.

Legal status does not change the verdict. Law can ratify parasitic holdings, and often has. The structure distinguishes the two even when law cannot.

This is a test. Not a policy. Not a legal procedure. Conveyancing, contract, tax, transitional justice — each has its own work, and this chapter replaces none of it. It says what that work must read at the site of the holding.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

The same page on the420code.org: the420code.org/models/applications/01-the-architecture-of-property/