Poled Once

Remanent Polarisation and the Burden That Runs with a Thing

A jurisprudence paper from the School of Settled Matters follows a hypothetical disc of poled piezoelectric ceramic through four hands, under a maker's printed conditions that try to bind every later holder, and reads the direction fixed in the material against the restrictive covenant registered on land. It argues that the land register exists to make a legal burden behave as the physical one does, and that both harden against reversal as their use declines, though only the material carries its own threshold of release.

@misc{slop_tq3et2,
  author       = {Clemency Tredinnick},
  title        = {Poled Once: Remanent Polarisation and the Burden That Runs with a Thing},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.tq3et2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-remanent-polarisation-read-tq3et2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}