Jurisdiction

The scope and bounds of rightful governance or action, as defined by mutual agreement, alignment with Logos, and functional Subsidiarity.

Jurisdiction answers the question does this belong to us? — and, just as importantly, what is not ours to decide? Where a Domain names the space a body tends, jurisdiction names the edge of what its decisions may bind, and therefore the edge of whose consent it must have.

It is load-bearing in two directions at once. Without a stated edge, bodies reach: a supercell begins deciding what a Cell should do at its own table, and federation quietly becomes rule. Without a stated edge, bodies also abdicate: a matter that visibly harms the whole is left unaddressed because nobody is sure it is theirs. Most governance failures in practice are one of these two, not malice.

In the Game jurisdiction is set by the same act that creates a body: sovereigns associate, a Domain appears, a Selectively Permeable Membrane bounds it, and a Field of Agreements says what the members have given the body leave to decide. Anything outside that is a Proposal, a request, or an offer — never an instruction. When a matter genuinely spans two bodies, it goes to the smallest table that contains both, which is Subsidiarity doing its work.

The canon holds jurisdiction as a Lexicon definition rather than a developed practice; how disputes over jurisdiction are actually settled between neighbouring bodies is named across the corpus but not yet written. Treat what follows from the definition as sound and the procedure as unbuilt.

Also called: scope · bounds Stands on: Domain · Authority · Subsidiarity · Field of Agreements · Logos Opens onto: Mandate · Selectively Permeable Membrane · Arbitration · Adjudication · Federation · Proportionality In play: table — the first question asked of any proposal that touches another body Sources: The LIØNSBERG Lexicon, Pillar II table (states: Work In Progress) · Domains of Responsibility and Authority (root page, unmarked) · The LIØNSBERG Operating System §15 (states: draft v0) · lionsberg.wiki: The LIØNSBERG Lexicon Open: No root page exists for Jurisdiction; the term lives only as one Lexicon row. No inter-body dispute procedure is written anywhere found in this pass.