THE LAW AS MEANING ECONOMY Juridical Liquidation and the Semantic Architecture of Administered Justice

The five stages of juridical liquidation are:

1. tokenization; 2. context stripping; 3. attribution relocation; 4. value capture; 5. closure.

The proposed correspondence is:

• lived claim → legal token;
• situated narrative → administrable category;
• speaker’s account → institutional voice;
• conflict → precedent, settlement, or managed case;
• open struggle → closed record.

The essay proposes a Juridical Liquidation Index to compare semantic loss across stages.

Its scope note excludes the claim that all law is reducible to liquidation.