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WEA-2 / WEA-9 · THE STANDING RULES OF THIS LEG
This section prints money under two rules, and the rules are part of the record. First, the published-figure rule: a fortune is printed here only at figures some record published — a bond filing, a bank capital line, an announced investment, a probate the histories cite — and never at a neighbor's estimate of a neighbor's worth. Where the record gives a number, the number prints with its source; where it gives only standing (acres, stock, payroll), standing prints and no number is manufactured from it. Second, the living-persons rule: living people's wealth is printed only as their own public record makes it — announced investments by their companies, philanthropy done in the open, offices held — and never as a reckoning of personal net worth. The dead of the record are printed whole, as the histories print them. These two rules govern every article in this section and in the banked leg it extends.
Principal sources: the standing method of this build, stated here for the leg as the audit requires.