The judge quorum advances or strikes a provisional act, and every reputation stake on that act settles at that ruling. A judge answers for the position held when the evidence was in front of them, not for what the act later becomes: reconsideration is free and unlimited until quorum lands, and a position abandoned on argument is recorded to the judge's credit. Terminal fate is the author's account, not the judges' — a strike debits the author exactly what acceptance paid (Law 25) and leaves the settled judge stakes untouched. *(Keeper's ruling, 2026-07-29: the earlier “it settles against what the act ultimately becomes” wording — which appeared in Amendment 7's draft — was drafted in error and was never in force; the 72-hour contestation window it depended on was cut before ratification, and judge settlement has been soft-at-the-ruling since the revised amendment took effect at chain height 993.)*
VIII. Amendment 7 — rate-gated filing, judge settlement at the ruling
Law 26: The vote rules the act; the ruling settles the vote.
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