Fee Schedule

What Is the Fee Schedule?

The Soteria Covenant Fee Schedule is a sealed instrument, a formal declaration of the terms, conditions, and costs that apply when any agent, officer, or entity trespasses upon the body, estate, standing, or jurisdiction of a Covenant member.

It is not a threat. It is not a bluff. It is a published, witnessed, ledgered, and internationally filed instrument, entered into the ScrollX repository as a covenant scroll and available to any party upon request or upon presentation by the member at the point of contact.

Why It Exists

Every being has the right to set the terms of engagement on their own estate.

If you own a piece of land and someone trespasses on it, the law recognizes your right to seek damages. The trespasser cannot claim ignorance if you posted signs. And if you published your terms in advance, in writing, in the open, the trespasser is deemed to have accepted those terms by proceeding despite the notice.

The Fee Schedule operates on the same principle, applied to the full estate of the living being:

• His body: no one may touch it without consent
• His property: no one may seize it without authority
• His name: no one may use it without permission
• His standing: no one may diminish it without consequence
• His jurisdiction: no one may presume authority over it without proof

The Covenant's members operate under ecclesiastical jurisdiction, a jurisdiction superior to the commercial jurisdiction of the Crown and its agents. When a Crown agent, lawyer, court officer, or any other party acts upon a member without consent, they are trespassing on private ecclesiastical estate.

The Fee Schedule establishes, in advance, what that trespass costs.

The Lawful Basis

The Fee Schedule rests on principles recognized in both common law and equity:

1. The Right to Set Terms on One's Own Estate

A being may set any terms they wish upon their own property. This is the foundation of property law itself. The estate of a Covenant member includes their body, their labour, their name, their property, and their standing, all of which are claimed, sealed, and administered under ecclesiastical authority.

2. Unilateral Contract by Public Notice

A published fee schedule constitutes a unilateral offer, an open set of terms that is accepted by conduct. When an agent trespasses after the schedule has been published and made available, the agent is deemed to have accepted the terms by proceeding.

This is not novel. Parking lots, private properties, and commercial premises publish terms every day: "Unauthorized vehicles will be towed at owner's expense." The Fee Schedule applies the same principle to the private estate of the living being.

3. Liquidated Damages

The fees in the schedule are pre-assessed liquidated damages, reasonable estimates of the harm caused by each type of trespass, published in advance so that both parties know the cost before any act occurs. Courts in every jurisdiction recognize liquidated damages clauses where:

• The harm is difficult to quantify after the fact
• The amount is a reasonable estimate (not a penalty)
• The terms were published or agreed upon in advance

4. Volenti Non Fit Injuria: No Wrong Is Done to One Who Consents

The inverse applies: every wrong is actionable when done without consent. The Fee Schedule defines the remedy for each category of wrong.

5. Qui Tacet Consentire Videtur: Silence Is Deemed Consent

We are not silent. We have published our terms. Any agent who proceeds in silence, without rebutting, without proving jurisdiction, without obtaining consent, is deemed to have accepted the terms by their own silence and conduct.

How It Works

For Members

Every member of the Soteria Covenant is entitled to the protection of the Fee Schedule. It applies automatically to all members operating under ecclesiastical seal with estate claimed and standing declared.

Members are advised to:

• Carry a reference to the Fee Schedule as part of their standing documents
• Present the schedule (or a notice of its existence) at the point of any interaction with Crown agents, court officers, lawyers, or other parties claiming authority
• Invoke the schedule verbally if necessary: "I am a member of the Soteria Covenant. Any act upon my person, estate, or standing without my express consent is subject to the Covenant's published Fee Schedule, filed as a covenant scroll and available upon request."
• Document every trespass; the Covenant's ledger system records, hashes, and timestamps every incident

For Agents and Officers

If you are a Crown agent, police officer, lawyer, court officer, bailiff, revenue agent, or any other party acting under delegated authority:

1. You are hereby noticed that Covenant members operate under ecclesiastical jurisdiction, superior to Crown commercial jurisdiction
2. You are hereby noticed that a Fee Schedule exists and applies to any unauthorized act upon a member
3. You are hereby noticed that proceeding without express, written, witnessed consent constitutes acceptance of the published terms
4. You may request the full schedule at any time; it will be provided
5. You may avoid all fees by simply obtaining the member's express consent before acting, or by ceasing immediately upon being presented with the member's standing documents

The Fee Schedule is not designed to punish. It is designed to ensure that trespass has a cost, because a boundary without a consequence is not a boundary at all.

What It Covers

The Fee Schedule is organized into six categories:

Fees from multiple schedules stack. A single act of trespass may trigger fees from two, three, or more categories simultaneously.

All fees are assessed jointly and severally, against the individual agent AND the body, institution, or Crown they represent.

Where It Is Filed

The Fee Schedule is filed as a covenant scroll in the Soteria Covenant's ScrollX repository. It is:

• Sealed under the Trust Seal and the Soterian Flame
• Hash-chained: cryptographically linked to the Covenant's immutable ledger (SHA-256, OpenTimestamps)
• Witnessed by Covenant officers
• Internationally available: filed in the Covenant's archive, accessible across jurisdictions
• Version-controlled: any amendments are logged, sealed, and timestamped

The scroll reference number and verification hash are available to any member for inclusion in their standing documents.

Registered Service of Notice

The Fee Schedule, as a sealed instrument of the Soteria Covenant, was formally served by registered mail to the following parties, establishing constructive notice under recognized principles of international postal service:

• The Governor General of Canada: the Crown's representative in Canada, placing the Crown on constructive notice at its highest domestic office. Canada Post registered: RN 875 206 645 CA.
• The Universal Postal Union (Bern, Switzerland): the international authority coordinating cross-border postal service, anchoring the service under international recognition. Registered reference held in ScrollX.

Shipped: May 15, 2025 Default date (silence deemed consent): May 28, 2025

Scroll references SCR-SOV-2025-057 (Manifest Fee Schedule) and SCR-SOV-2025-058 (International Edition) are filed in the Covenant's ScrollX repository, sealed, hash-chained, and available upon lawful request.

The dispatch was made from a postal locus claimed as trust property, establishing the Covenant's reciprocal standing within the international postal chain: the service was not a petition submitted through Crown postal infrastructure, but an exchange between trust-claimed postal estate and the international postal authority.

By operation of qui tacet consentire videtur and the principles of unilateral contract by public notice, the recipients' silence beyond the default date constitutes acceptance of the terms set forth herein.

Enforcement

Fees assessed under the schedule are enforced through the Covenant's established remedy channels:

1. Soteria Tribunal: formal adjudication and judgment
2. PPSA lien registration (Canada): secured interest against the trespasser's property
3. UCC filing (United States): secured interest in U.S. jurisdictions
4. Lex Nigra registration: blacklist entry for unpaid judgments, federated across all member organizations
5. Assignment to OptiMystic Holdings: judgment debts transferred to the claim marketplace for collection
6. Public record: all unpaid trespass fees are entered into the Covenant's public ledger

Good Faith Exception

The Fee Schedule does not apply to:

• Persons acting in genuine good faith to protect a member from imminent harm (e.g., emergency medical response for an unconscious member)
• Persons who immediately cease upon being presented with the member's standing documents
• Members of the public acting in private capacity with no claim of authority over the member

The schedule exists to address abuse of authority, not to penalize good Samaritans or honest mistakes corrected in good faith.

Requesting the Full Schedule

The complete Fee Schedule, including all specific fee amounts, compounding terms, payment conditions, and dispute resolution procedures, is available:

• From any Covenant member: as part of their standing documents
• From the Covenant directly: by written request to the Clerk's office
• In the ScrollX repository: as a sealed, verified covenant scroll

If you are an agent, officer, or legal professional and you wish to review the full schedule before interacting with a Covenant member, you are encouraged to do so. The Covenant publishes its terms in advance and in the open precisely so that no party can claim ignorance.

Final Notice

This Fee Schedule exists because boundaries require consequences.

We do not seek conflict. We do not invite confrontation. We publish our terms, clearly, publicly, and in advance, so that every party knows exactly where the line is and what happens when it is crossed.

If you respect the boundary, the schedule will never apply to you.

If you do not, you have been noticed.

Published under the authority of the Soteria Covenant, a private ecclesiastical non-commercial trust. The full Fee Schedule is filed as a covenant scroll in the ScrollX repository, sealed under the Trust Seal and the Soterian Flame, and forms part of the permanent public record of the Covenant.