On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, comex wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm also not sure if we should even let the equity court handle >> disputes over private pledges that have absolutely nothing to do with >> Agora just because they claim to be intended to be bound by the rules >> of Agora. A type of equity judgment similar to IRRELEVANT for >> inquiries should be provided. > > This is the wrong direction, I think. I remember (but can't find) an > email in which someone laid out a vision for the Agoran contract > system as a method that was sufficiently stable and usable to govern > general agreements between persons...
Strongly agree here, it is meant to serve (in theory) as a general model for an arbitration service for arbitrary contracts, providing all parties agree in signing the contract that Agora is the binding jurisdiction. > In this case, a real-life court would most likely be inappropriate for > this agreement about Nethack: the parties have (as far as I know) > never met face-to-face, and the inequity created by ihope's failure to > ascend is probably too minimal to assign a monetary value to, much > less a significant one. However, if said failure did (in a judge's > opinion) cause damages for which Notes or VPs are a sufficient > compensation, the inequity can be easily and quickly resolved using > the Agoran courts. It's worth noting that there's nothing stopping a judge from imposing a judgement of "ihope shall send one dollar by mail to tusho" and having stand as a legal equity judgement (in general, I won't comment on value in this particular case, I don't know). The question of enforcement is a challenging one though. As long as both parties have a "governed by Agora" stake that is generally deemed to have value (Agoran currency, or avoidance of a criminal penalty) the "dollar" example would work as it could be backed up by Agoran status. If the party's stake in Agora as a whole is (to em) less than a dollar though, there's not much we can do, except perhaps, r, use the email threads as a evidence claim to sell the debt to a collection agency? This is actually no different than real-world debt dispute; someone claims a dept from me, I dispute it, it's not worth (to the collection agency) the cost or difficulty of a small-claims court, stalemate. Proto: Agoran Bounty Hunters [er, I think I'll stop here.] -Goethe
