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Revision as of 22:09, 16 September 2019
Laws
Unless otherwise noted, the court of trial depends on the defendant’s station (regency court for nobles, free court for freemen, etc.).
Income: Equal to yearly income
Wergild: A fee paid to the victim’s family by the murderer. Penance: There are various forms of penance, from private meditation, flagellation, branding, public humiliation (peasantry throws eggs and tomatoes at shackled penitent) or dangerous quests. Three levels: Simple (meditation, mild labor), severe (flagellation, hard labor) and extreme (branding, painful torture, dangerous quests down unreflective jumproads, etc.).
Indenture: The person becomes a serf to the winning party for a set term. Terms vary with the crime and planet of trial (traditionally 7 years).
Theft
Crime | Punishment |
---|---|
Petty | Imprisonment (term varies per planet) |
Grand | Loss of limb (usually a hand) |
Tech | Either of above or possible lobotomy or invitation of guild membership |
Land | Loss of disputed land plus income gained during false ownership |
Smuggling
Item | Punishment |
---|---|
Banned by local lord | Imprisonment |
Banned by Church | Simple or severe penance (depending on nature of item), possible imprisonment |
Banned by a guild | Simple or severe penance (depending on nature of item), possible imprisonment |
Banned by Emperor | Imprisonment, possible loss of limb |
Assault
Victim | Punishment |
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Noble | Monetary fine for nobles (equal to 1/20th victim’s income); simple penance and possible imprisonment for priests; imprisonment or serfdom for freemen; death for serfs. |
Priest | Severe penance and possible monetary fine for nobles (equal to 1/20th assaulter’s income); severe penance and possible imprisonment for priests; imprisonment or indenture for freemen; monetary fine for serf’s |
Freeman | Monetary fine for nobles (equal to 1/50th victim’s income); simple or severe penance for priests; imprisonment or monetary fine for freemen; small monetary fine for serf’s owner |
Serf | Owner must bring grievance. Monetary fine for nobles (equal to 1/10th cost of serf; see Costs of Goods); private penance (simple) for priests; small monetary fine for freemen; slavery for serfs (proceeds go to injured serf’s owner) |
Rape
Victim | Punishment |
---|---|
Noble | Almost never reported by victim, otherwise death |
Priest | Severe penance for nobles; severe penance or possible defrocking for priests; imprisonment, severe penance or indenture for freemen; death for serfs (unless victim pleads mercy, in which case serf is indentured to victim’s sect) |
Freeman | Monetary fine for those rare nobles who lose such cases (equal to 1/50th raper’s income); severe penance for priests; imprisonment or monetary fine for freemen; torture, loss of limb or slavery for serfs |
Murder
Victim | Punishment |
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Noble | Wergild for nobles (equal to victim’s income, paid to victim’s family); imprisonment and possible defrocking for priests; imprisonment, serfdom or death for freemen; death following torture for serfs |
Priest | Public penance (severe or extreme, depending on victim’s rank) and monetary fine for nobles (equal to 1/3rd murderer’s income, paid to victim’s sect); imprisonment, public penance (extreme) or possible defrocking for priests; imprisonment, indenture or death for freemen; death for serfs (unless victim’s
superior pleads mercy, in which case serf is indentured to victim’s sect) |
Freeman | Small monetary fine on major house capital worlds to wergild for nobles (equal to 1/3rd victim’s income, paid to victim’s family) on cosmopolitan worlds; imprisonment or severe penance for priests, possible defrocking if victim was influential; imprisonment, monetary fine or death for freemen; death for serfs |
Serf | Owner must bring grievance. Monetary fine for nobles (equal to cost of serf); public penance for priests; monetary fine for freemen (paid to serf’s owner); death or slavery for serfs (proceeds go to serf’s owner) |
Obstruction of Justice
Crime | Punishment |
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Obstructing local law | Imprisonment, possible accusation as accomplice to whatever crime was obstructed |
Obstructing the Inquisition | Severe penance, possible imprisonment, possible accusation as heretic |
Obstructing Imperial law | Imprisonment, possible accusation as accomplice to whatever crime was obstructed,
possible service at Stigmata Garrison |
Loan Default
Nobles: Family will usually pay debt but with loss of face. Priests: Sect will often pay debt, but expect penance in return. Guildsmembers: Guild will usually pay debt, penalizing future promotion or in return for dangerous tasks.
Loaner | Punishment |
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Noble | Loss of land or property equal in value to amount of loan. If no property, indenture (term varies per planet; usually as many years as it would normally take the defaulter to pay back loan based on income) |
Priest | Loss of land or property equal in value to amount of loan. If no property, extreme penance or indenture (term varies per planet; usually as many years as it would normally take the defaulter to pay back loan based on income) |
Guildsmember | Loss of land or property equal in value to amount of loan. If no property, indenture for freemen (term varies per planet; usually as many years as it would normally take the defaulter to pay back loan based on income), or collateral for nobles and priests (in form of extended political favors and immunities from Church law) |
Libel/Slander
Victim | Punishment |
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Noble | Public apology and/or monetary fine for nobles; public penance for priests; public apology and/or imprisonment or monetary fine for freemen; slavery for serfs |
Priest | Penance for nobles; penance for priests; public penance and/or imprisonment or monetary fine for freemen; indenture to victim’s sect for serfs or monetary fine from owner |
Freeman | Nobles and priests are immune from legal prosecution against freemen (but guildsmembers find other means of restitution); public apology and/or imprisonment or monetary fine for freemen; does it really
matter what a serf says? |
Crimes Against Estates
Crime | Punishment |
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Tax Evasion | Monetary fine in addition to owed taxes only for the influential), imprisonment or
indenture |
Removing Land Mark | (Proof of ownership) Imprisonment |
Trespass | Warning (for influential trespassers), monetary fine or imprisonment |
Poaching | Recompense for owner’s loss and possible banishment |
Freeing serfs | Recompense for owner’s loss (regardless if serf is recaptured; see Costs of Goods for serf
prices) and possible indenture |
Inciting revolt | Death. Potential martyrs are usually imprisoned for life instead |
Treason | Death or banishment from injured party’s fiefs |
Republicanism | Imprisonment, severe penance, banishment from Known Worlds or death |
Counterfeiting
Type | Punishment |
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Firebird | Loss of limb(s) or death |
Other | Other |
Patent Violation
The following crimes are rarely tried in court, but their typical punishments are provided here.
Crime | Punishment |
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High-Tech invention | Destruction of invention or possible invitation to join Engineers |
Violating crime monopoly | Warning, beating or gangland murder, possible invitation to join Scravers |
Scab | Beating or death, possible invitation to join the Muster |
Jumpkey forging | Chauki stride (ejected from airlock) |
CCG marketing | Visit from the Purger, possible monetary fine |
Miscellaneous
Crime | Punishment |
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Selling freeman into slavery | Restitution equal to twice freeman’s lost income during enslavement (these cases
rarely reach court) |
Blackmail | Imprisonment and/or public apology |
Forgery | Imprisonment, loss of forging limb (hand) in extreme cases |
Stowaway | Chauki stride (ejected from airlock) |
Suspicion of Symbiosis | Death |
Ecclesiastical Court
These charges are brought by and in a Church court regardless of the accused’s stations.
Moral or Thought Crimes
Crime | Crime |
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Illicit pedagogy | Imprisonment or indenture to injured party (noble owner of now-learned serfs or priests of now-learned villagers) |
Illegal book possession | Simple or severe penance (depending on nature of books). Repeat offences mean imprisonment |
Illegal book Authoring | Simple or severe penance, possible imprisonment |
Illegal book Printing | Severe penance, imprisonment |
Illegal book dissemination | Simple or severe penance |
Rumor mongering | Simple penance or imprisonment (unless member of a rumormongers guild) |
Public lewdity | Simple or severe penance or possible imprisonment |
Graverobbing | Public penance (severe), imprisonment, possible loss of limb (if disturbed dead have influential living family) |
Tithe Evasion | Simple or severe penance in addition to owed tithes. Repeat offence means possible
imprisonment or indenture |
Omition | (Failure to speak out against Church crimes) Simple or severe penance, depending on nature of crime |
Violation of confession | Only priests can be accused. Simple penance for first infraction, severe for second, extreme
penance or possible defrocking for successive violations |
Trafficking in Illicit Drugs
Substances are considered mild (narcotics), severe (psychedelics) or dangerous (selchakah, zhrii’ka’a lotus, etc.).
Crime | Punishment |
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Possession | Mild: simple penance; Severe: severe penance or imprisonment; Dangerous: extreme penance
or death |
Distribution | Mild: severe penance; Severe: extreme penance or imprisonment; Dangerous: Extreme penance, loss of limbs (including possible lobotomy) or death |
Trafficking in Proscribed Technology
Crime | Punishment |
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Possession | TL5 or less: simple penance; TL6-7: severe penance (branding with the dark sign) or
imprisonment; TL8+: extreme penance or death |
Distribution | TL5 or less: severe penance (branding with the dark sign) or imprisonment; TL6-7: extreme
penance; TL8+: extreme penance, loss of limbs (including possible lobotomy) or death |
Cloning | Extreme penance and imprisonment (only for influential) or excommunication and death. Clones are killed. |
Organ Harvesting
This only includes harvesting the organs of unwilling victims, including serfs (although it is hard to disprove a signed serf contract if the serf is dead).
Crime | Punishment |
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Transplantee | Must either give up organ or undergo severe penance |
Surgeon | Extreme penance, branding and possible imprisonment |
Hexery
Crime | Punishment |
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Evil Eye, Curse | Mild: severe penance; Severe: extreme penance, branding, possible loss of property; Extreme: Death or excommunication. Punishment depends on the effect and degree of the hex: a mild curse results in a simple effect (the mayor stumbles and falls into the river during his speech), a severe curse results in injury or loss of property (a tree limb falls on someone’s head at an evil word from the hexer, a neighbor’s chickens lay rotten eggs or his cows give sour milk) and an extreme curse results in severe injury, death, or the loss of faith of others (a wasting disease, a plague, the casting of doubt among the flock) |
Luck charms | Any boons gained by such hexery are turned over to Church (money from charms for monetary reward, etc.) in addition to simple or severe penance |
Fortune telling | Simple penance for minor bone throwing, palm-reading or weather-witching; severe penance for card or think machine spreads; extreme penance, death or excommunication for entrail reading. |
Healing | Simple penance and possible indenture to Church healing order (if healings are effective) |
Heresy
Public recanting may reduce punishment.
Crime | Punishment |
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Wrongful interpretation of scripture | Simple or severe penance |
Spreading false doctrine | Severe penance, possible imprisonment |
Creating false sect | Extreme penance, possible imprisonment or excommunication |
Worshipping pre-reflective gods (pagans) | Severe or extreme penance, possible imprisonment |
Trafficking w/ Dark Powers | Extreme penance, possible execution and/or excommunication |
Worshipping Dark Powers | Death and excommunication |