Evidence before shares
Discovery Claim Act
A discovery record must begin with evidence, not excitement, and must preserve the difference between an observation and a confirmed finding.
Hamburgerlandia may recognize internal discovery shares while making no automatic claim to outside ownership, removal rights, permits, or scientific authority.
Definitions
- Discovery
- A documented material, fossil, artifact, structure, signal, or other finding connected to a Hamburgerlandia field or parcel record.
- Discovery file
- The evidence packet, custody history, review record, and decision record for a discovery.
- Discovery share
- A Hamburgerlandia record of participation in a confirmed discovery, with terms fixed in the written decision for that discovery.
Article 1
Scope And Authority
1.1 Authority
- Discovery records and shares exist under Tommy the Hamburger and cannot outrank him.
- The Land And Parcels Directorate and Archives And Records Hearth jointly maintain the discovery process.
1.2 Outside boundary
- A discovery record does not create an outside mineral, fossil, archaeological, salvage, intellectual-property, or land claim.
- No specimen may be entered, removed, altered, sold, or tested without the permissions and expert review required for that action.
Article 2
Initial Report
2.1 Required report
- The first report must state the time, location method, parcel connection, finder record, observation, and collection method if anything was collected.
- The report must separate direct observation, measurement, witness statement, and interpretation.
2.2 Immediate preservation
- Original photographs, sensor files, notes, and metadata must be preserved without silent alteration.
- Potentially sensitive coordinates, private identities, security details, and protected-site information may be restricted from public display.
Article 3
Evidence And Custody
3.1 Evidence register
- Each evidence item must receive an identifier, description, source, timestamp, and custodian record.
- Every transfer, copy, transformation, sample, and test must be added to the custody history.
3.2 Integrity
- A missing source, broken custody history, unexplained edit, or unverifiable location must be disclosed in the discovery file.
- Weak or conflicting evidence may support further inquiry but cannot be presented as a confirmed finding.
Article 4
Review
4.1 Hearth review
- The reviewing hearth must identify the question, evidence reviewed, expertise used, conflicts, and limits of its finding.
- A reviewer with a personal interest in the result must disclose that interest and may be recused.
4.2 Finding states
- A discovery may be recorded as reported, under review, confirmed for Hamburgerlandia records, disputed, corrected, or retired.
- Confirmation must state exactly what was confirmed and must not extend beyond the supporting evidence.
Article 5
Parcel Connection
5.1 Connection finding
- A claimed parcel connection must identify the canonical parcel, location method, relevant layer, and uncertainty.
- A nearby observation is not automatically inside a parcel and must not be recorded as such without sufficient location evidence.
5.2 Holder notice
- The active recorded holder must receive notice before a parcel-linked discovery decision is finalized when contact is available.
- A holder may submit evidence or a dispute but cannot suppress accurate archive records merely by objecting.
Article 6
Discovery Shares
6.1 Written allocation
- No discovery percentage or share arises automatically from parcel holding, finding, review, funding, or custody.
- Any discovery share must be fixed by a written decision identifying participants, contribution basis, conditions, and the record or proceeds to which it applies.
6.2 No invented value
- A discovery share has no promised price, liquidity, return, outside ownership, or payment unless a separate completed transaction and receipt establish it.
- The public record must distinguish an internal share record from money, securities, ownership, custody, or a transferable asset.
Article 7
Publication, Disputes, And Correction
7.1 Publication
- A public discovery notice must link to a bounded evidence summary, finding state, parcel connection, reviewers, and material limitations.
- Public language must not reveal restricted data or claim more certainty than the decision supports.
7.2 Challenge and correction
- A challenge must identify the disputed statement and provide evidence or a concrete integrity concern.
- Corrections must preserve the prior record, state the reason, and update every dependent discovery-share and parcel record.