The Laws of the Vale

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Law and Justice of the Vale of Eretine.

 

The Legal Jurisdiction of the Realm is restricted to the areas specifically contained within, or under the direct influence of, the Vale. Legal Jurisdiction by dictation of the Autarch of the Radiant and their council, in all cases supersedes the jurisprudence of the Archlands of the Vale, and its Subsidiaries.

 

“All are created equal.

Some cannot prove this.”

-A.L Sunlight, XIV.

 

1.1 Justice

   I. Justice is the ideal that every man must be rendered what he is due, to both defendant and prosecuted in due process of law.

       A. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of all things Divine and Mortal, as well as the Sciences of the Just and the Unjust.

      B. The exposition of Law shall apply to all men, women, and races whom are citizens of the Vale.

      C. Palatinate Law defines what it is to live honestly, to hurt none without cause, and to give all is due.

      D. Noncitizens of the Vale are not liable to the same rights and protections as a citizen if accused of a crime as defined Palatinate law.

 

1.2 Right of Personage

All Law relates to Persons, Things, or Actions. It is improbable that all men shall be defined beneath one Law, yet it is the Palatinate maxim that we must know the persons for whom Law was written and constructed. The chief division in all rights of peerage, is that men are free, or not.

   I. Slavery is defined as the ownership, domestication, or indentured servitude of non-elven or non-human races.

    A. Slavery as defined in section 1.2.1 is not permitted within the borders of the region of the Archlands regardless of the citizenship of the owner or guardian of said slave. A slave to a foreign nation who is a noncitizen of the Vale is liable to be returned to their aforementioned nation.

     B. The sale, trade, barter, or gift of a slave within the borders of the Valeis barred and considered punishable by law.

 

   II. Freedom is defined as the natural power and authority to behave as is considered natural to a person within the parameters of law and due order.

     A. All Vale citizens are considered to possess freedom and all it entails as a citizen of the Vale.

 

  III. A person is considered Indigenous who is free from the moment of birth, being born in Matrimony of parents who have been born, or previously set free. If the mother is a free individual, then the child birthed is to be considered free, and a member of the palatinate-technocracy of the Vale of Eretine.

     A. When a Man has been born free in the Palatinate, he does not cease to be indigenous. If a Citizen of the Vale is enslaved by some matter of prejudice or enfranchisement, the man in question shall be set free by the Jurisprudence of Palatinate Law.

 

  IV. Those who are Not Independent, yet possessing of Freedom in limited form, is considered a major importance to the Law and Rights of Person and Peerage. It is to be considered that there are those who are subject to the powers of others, but remain Independent in the legal writ of the Law. Of those, some are in the Power of Parents, Masters, Wardens and Husbands.

    A. But, at the present initiation of the Law, no singular Legate subject may use unrestrained violence towards their warded, or other subjects, except for a reason that is to be recognized by Jurisprudence. The power of masters over their subjects ought to be preserved, but none should misuse their own property. However, it is for the best interest of all Masters themselves, that relief prayed on good grounds against cruelty, a denial of sustenance, or any other intolerable injury, is subject to investigation and punishment under Palatinate Jurisprudence.

 

   V. Considering the Power of Parents, it is the case that Children who are begotten in a lawful marriage, are in the ultimate power of these parents.

      A. Marriage or Matrimony is the binding of Man and Woman to live in an Indivisible Union beneath the eyes of Gods and Men.

      B. The child born to you and your wife is in your power. Such is the son of the child born to your son’s wife,- that being your grandson or granddaughter, as this is with all descendants of the son. However, a child born of your daughter is not in your authority to control, but rather in the power of its own father.

 

  VI. Citizens may be bound together in lawful matrimony when they are united according to law, and by a Priest of the respected Pantheon, Lord of a House, or Captain of a Seafaring Vessel. In this case, the males must have attained the age of puberty, and the females a marriageable age, whether they are fathers or sons of a family. But, of the latter they must first obtain the consent of their father, in whose power they legally reside below. For both natural reason, and the Law this consent is required, so much so indeed that if consent of the Parents of both Son and Daughter are not acquired, then the marriage is legally annulled upon its consummation.

    A. All women may not be married without distinction. As such, with some, marriage is forbidden. Marriage cannot be contracted between two individuals who are similar to one another in the relation of ascendant and descendant, as between a father and daughter, a grandfather and granddaughter, a mother or son, a grandmother and grandson, an aunt and nephew, and so on- ad infinitum.

     B. All speciations of women may not be married without distinction. As such, marriage is forbidden with races that are deemed to be below the race of the initiating male. In the case where the parents do not forbid the marriage, Law forbids the marriage by writ of jurisprudence. In this case, races such as (of any Degree), Elven, Half-Elven (of any Degree), Human, ad etcetera, may under no circumstance marry any of the races such as Beastkin (of any Degree), Orc, or Dark Altered Races.

 

   VII. A Man may under no circumstance marry the daughter of a brother or a sister, nor the granddaughter of a brother or sister, despite the fact that she may be separated by the fourth degree. Equally so, there is legal impediment to the marriage of a daughter, granddaughter, ad infinitum of a woman whom has been adopted into the family by your father, grandfather, or any other ascendant, ad infinitum.

 

 

 

 

Henceforth, what shall be declared as 'Tier One Crimes' will be the following:

- Public disturbance

- Vandalism

- Vigilantism

- Slandering the nobility/guard

- Impersonation

- Fistfights

- Physical assault or uncalled-for brawling

 

In addition to such, clarification upon 'Tier Two Crimes' are what follows:

- Illegal weapon possession; as to what weapons are illegal are to be left up to the current ruling state official(s).

- Illegal armour possession; same rules from the first are to apply.

- Illegal Wizardry or 'Summoning' without granted permission from the ruling governance.

- Slandering the rule of the governing body.

- Physical assault on official statesmen or any politically-affiliated individual.

 

And, thusly, what is considered to be of the highest of criminal acts 'Tier Three Crimes' are categorized with:

- Physical assault on any appointed noble figure or designated individual charged with an authoritative position within the Clan of Lothryne, Atmorice, Tundrak, or the Elysians of  the High Council.

- Murder.

- Using one's affliction, either by lycanthrope or vampyric means, to evade capture or to cause any one citizen harm or misfortune.

- Feeding the Strigae curse by means of involuntarily consuming the blood of any one citizen of the idyllic, elysian realm; criminals are exempt.

- Conspiracy against the state; be it supportive of the enemy during wartime or lending information to a potential outside or internal threat.

- General treason; something which is able to be determined by appointed consul or official.

 

The following is what can be expected as a just punishments for each tier of crimes:

'Tier One Crimes':

- Warnings.

- Fines.

- Light incarceration.

- Mild beatings.

 

'Tier Two Crimes':

- Public beatings.

- Public flogging.

- Branding.

- Extended incarceration.

'Tier Three Crimes':

- If or Dark Magic Altered; brutalization and treatment as an animal.

- Execution (Under express orders of the ruling governance.)

- Maiming (Under express orders of the ruling governance.)

- Even more extended incarnerations.

 

Signed,

Lord-Archmage of the Sacrosanct Vale, Auriel of Lothryne

[Monkee 7369]

54 minutes ago, Auriel_ said:

Physical assault on any appointed noble figure or designated individual charged with an authoritative position within the Clan of Lothryne, Atmorice, Tundrak, or the Elysians of  the High Council.

A very confused Tundrak wonders what his bloodline has to do with a foreign settlement.

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Daisy Applefoot frowns as she reads that Elves and Humans can’t marry Orcs “Dunno why t’ey though’ ‘t was necessary ter add ‘n tha’ rule.”