# Substrate Transition Event **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Status / Continuity **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Proposed continuity-law concept ## Definition A **Substrate Transition Event** is a legally recognized event at which protected continuity state moves from biological embodiment into another substrate or a successor continuity process. ## Continuity Significance It asks whether law needs an event analogous to birth, death, naturalization, merger, or succession to change the legal carrier of identity. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence No general substrate-transition status event exists in current civil law. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Technological copying is not automatically a legal substrate transition. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Death Registration as Ontological Boundary|Death Registration as Ontological Boundary]] · [[wiki/Legal Identity After Substrate Transition|Legal Identity After Substrate Transition]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] · [[wiki/Continuity Registry|Continuity Registry]]