Finite but not fixed, maybe the time spent on this caused me to miss some rendezvous with fate I otherwise had and so gained a great many seconds by it.
In my defense I would say I know next to nothing about common or civil law but was just adding my uninformed tuppence worth because that is what Lemmy is all about. All us monkies gabbing on so that AI can learn how to talk as well as what we does and then kill us all.
Right on New Year's Eve the house party I was at had an argument with another party three houses away about which would win a tennis tournament and we really needed a court.
The fact that lawyers and a jury are needed does indicate that justice is about showtime arguments rather than the clockwork application of the law to the facts by a judge.
Hoarding is not the correct way to think of billionaires amassing grotesque wealth, hoarding is the old couple putting cash under the bed. For the old couple it is their money and their business. What billionaires do is a significant societal drain on resources and should be dealt with accordingly, akin to war crimes.