Event · treaty
The Rotation Laws
Office capped at fifty years; inherited property time-limited.
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The Rotation Laws (2380s). By now the first renewed have held office for decades, and inheritance has stalled because nobody dies. Threshold polities cap tenure in office at fifty years and time-limit inherited property — a jubilee for an age of long lives. The Mandate's 25-year Council terms came first; the Settlement borrowed the idea.