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Are there any interesting properties of these qua span?
The legs are jointly monic; is that the kind of thing you mean?
Sort of; but I'm really more interested in properties that obviously cash out as something about the loose arrows in the double category of spans.
Well, joint monicity of the legs translates to being a subterminal object of the hom-category of loose arrows... (-:O