# Business Continuity as Jurisdiction
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Jurisdiction / Disaster Recovery
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis
## Definition
**Business Continuity as Jurisdiction** describes regimes in which the lawful continuation or failover location of a digital service is itself licensed and regulated, making disaster recovery a jurisdictional event.
## Continuity Significance
It anticipates continuity migration in which failover changes not only machines but governing law.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
Jersey remote-gambling disaster recovery is a particularly clear example.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
Commercial continuity does not imply personhood continuity.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Remote Gambling Disaster Recovery|Remote Gambling Disaster Recovery]] · [[wiki/Remote Digital Jurisdiction|Remote Digital Jurisdiction]] · [[wiki/Treaty-Backed Custody|Treaty-Backed Custody]] · [[wiki/Jurisdictional Redundancy|Jurisdictional Redundancy]]