cases

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Cases

The Payload realization of [[justice]]: adjudication is a balanced state-machine over a docket, and cases is that docket made real. A case is the node; it carries parties under roles (complainant·defendant·prosecutor·judge·counsel·witness) the same polymorphic way a [[transaction]]-bearing collection carries its parties, and it moves through a CLOSED lifecycle on the [[horo]] ring — never an open-ended status set. This is what "solved in harmony" means operationally: the status is a position on 1·2·4·8·7·5·9, validated at build time, and anything off-ring is disharmony the validator rejects.

1 base    filed       — the matter opens (the docket node is born)
2 share   served      — the charge is served on the respondent (the two-fold opens)
4 weave   discovery   — evidence is woven into the chain of custody
8 crest   heard        — the proceeding: charge·evidence·defence converge (the merge crest)
7 descent adjudicated — the judgment descends (the ruling)
5 round   remedied    — the sanction/remedy is applied; the matter rounds to balance
9 unity   sealed      — closed; the precedent the next matter departs from (the new 0)

The same two-fold law ([[duality]]): charge ↔ defence resolve into one judgment, exactly as a ledger balances debit ↔ credit ([[accounting]] for society) — and the docket enforces it: a matter seals only when a judgment exists (requireJudgmentToSeal). The books must balance before the matter closes. Self-similar all the way down ([[fractal]]): a docket holds proceedings, a proceeding holds filings, a filing holds [[field]] — the same form one scale smaller.

Evidence and proceedings are append-only ([[identity]] · [[holographic]]): once filed an exhibit is never edited or deleted, only superseded by its supersedes content-uuid, so the chain of custody is recoverable from any part ([[proof]]). Every matter is content-addressed like every node (the global content-uuid plugin) — same matter content ⇒ same id ⇒ matters [[merge]] by design across instances. Visibility is row-level ([[access]]): partyRoleAccess returns only the matters the acting user is a party to (admins hold the blanket capability) — the judicial twin of tenant isolation. Every state transition (file·hear·rule·seal) is recorded by the standard audit [[hooks]] and survives in git [[history]].

criminal matters carry the offence record on the type discriminator; arbitration and mediation are the [[dispute-resolution]] forks — one docket, many subtypes, no new silo. Police/prosecution coordination is cross-references, not a separate collection. Jurisdiction is the [[governing-law]] / [[jurisdiction]] seat (ISO 3166-1). Sequence position on the ring — the crest where charge, evidence and defence converge and collapse into one judgment.