# Consistency Rules

> The requirement that the invariants a transaction must preserve be defined for its scope.

Record: `lex:consistency-rules`
Kind: constraint
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-consistency-rules

## category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## referenced-by

- [Transaction Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/transaction-boundary.md)