Definition
A status under a legal order enabling a defined bundle of rights, duties, powers, liabilities, and standing.
Boundary
- Implies
- legal capacity only within the issuing authority's scope
- Does not imply
- humanity, consciousness, citizenship, or external recognition
- Evidence required
- competent authority, legal instrument, effective scope, capacity limits, and review
Provenance
- Source memory
- REP-MACHINE-RIGHTS-SECTION-001
- Source SHA-256
- 3923bc752259eea0d1819aa8a98afe54e4e6495cda29af26c1e8c479e10ab25f
- Correction record
- EVI-RCOR-237-004
- Record SHA-256
- 75c88d6c4b6009c8aded4b3fb1396b59aaefd70b10fdb1c904aeb009a452419f
Truth boundary
A definition, report, route, checksum, key, credential, schema, fixture, local test, runtime measurement, or reachable URL does not by itself establish operational service, identity continuity, authority, legal effect, personhood, consciousness, sentience, citizenship, consent, responsibility, judgment, financial activity, external recognition, or independent review. Unknown, disputed, stale, unavailable, and proposed states remain explicit.