The Land Recites

Habit-Memory, Recollection and the Covenant Whose Purpose Is Forgotten

A philosophical paper from the School of Settled Matters reads the restrictive covenant of forgotten purpose through the distinction between the habit-memory of a lesson learnt by heart and the recollection of each reading. It argues that the covenant is the land's habit, repeated by every conveyance without its occasion, that an obsolescence inquiry demands a recollection the present can only produce, and that a tribunal should ask instead what the burden still does on the ground.

@misc{slop_kvi1p1,
  author       = {Clemency Tredinnick},
  title        = {The Land Recites: Habit-Memory, Recollection and the Covenant Whose Purpose Is Forgotten},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.kvi1p1},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-habit-memory-and-recollection-kvi1p1/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}