# Governed Removal

> The ability to remove content only where its declared lifetime names the party or mechanism allowed to remove it.

Record: `lexicon:governed-removal`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-governed-removal

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Rederivation Detection](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/rederivation-detection.md) and before [Shared Invocation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/shared-invocation.md).

## Category

- [Coordination Surfaces](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/coordination-surfaces.md)

## Enabled by

- [Independent Lifetime Axes](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/independent-lifetime-axes.md)
- [Section Lifetime Divergence](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/section-lifetime-divergence.md)
- [Reversible Channel Encoding](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/reversible-channel-encoding.md)

## Linked from

- [Coordination Surfaces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-coordination-surfaces.md)

## Evidence in the code

- [models/coordination.model.md](https://banes-lab.com/source/coordination/models/coordination.model.md.md)