# Stall Bound

> A rule or precondition that a record satisfied by judgement and left unacknowledged past a declared number of rounds is a finding, a bound on its lifetime rather than its size.

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Acknowledger](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/acknowledger.md) and before [Deferred Setting](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/deferred-setting.md).

## Category

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