On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 18:48, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> > On 4/9/2020 3:14 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > At the beginning of each quarter, half (rounded down) of each > > fugitive's blots are destroyed. > > > > with: > > > > At the beginning of each quarter, the Referee CAN and SHALL in a > > timely fashion, by announcement, expunge half (rounded down) of > > each fugitive's blots. > > So we recently went the opposite way for honour (from manual to automatic) > in the last paragraph of R2510. The way clauses like the bottom one are > written, if you forget to do it in the time limit, you lose the ability to > do it at all (because the CAN is "CAN within the time limit"). After the > Herald (me at the time) forgot twice in a row, we made it automatic. > > But of course the automatic version is easily forgotten in the first > report after the quarter, and then failure-to-note-the-adjustment > self-ratifies as not having happened. > > I think the best answer might be "CAN by announcement once per quarter, > and SHALL in a timely fashion after the quarter begins"? > > -G. > My recollection of the precedent was that "CAN and SHALL within <time limit>" allows the power to extend beyond the end of the time limit, if the duty remains unfulfilled. -Alexis
