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Monday, August 8, 2011

AN EXPLANATION OF GOREAN CHRONOLOGY

AN EXPLANATION OF GOREAN CHRONOLOGY



Goreans seem, for the most part, not too particular about the manner in which they tell time. The Wagon Peoples and Torvaldslanders, as well as the Tribesmen of the Tahari, the Black Tribes of the jungled south, and the Red Peoples, depend almost entirely upon their interpretation of the various positions of the sun, the moons and the stars to keep track of such matters. Even in the more civilized environs of Gor, where mechanical Gorean wrist chronometers, sand clocks, and waterclocks are readily available, the average Gorean tends to measure his day in hours rather than minutes. Perhaps that is why we are informed that Gorean chronometers, excepting those which are of the finest quality, seem to often lack such niceties as a minute hand or a second hand, and tend to concern themselves, like their owners, only with the passage of ahn. Oddly enough, Gorean chronometer run backwards, their spinning hands rotating in a counter-clockwise direction. I suppose this sort of thing is to be expected, it being "counter-earth" and all. Nevertheless, such peculiarities on the part of Goreans tend to lend certain aspects of Gor a "bizarro-world" quality, including the fact that instead of reading and writing from left to right, they do it from left to right on the first line, then from right to left on the following line, then back to left to right on the line after that, and so on, alternating the direction of each line.

If you can't imagine that, then here is an example:

Like many of the differences between the counter-earth and her sister planet, reading and writing in such a manner makes a certain amount of sense, since it would certainly save the reader from having to stop at the end of each line and go back to the left side of the page. Nevertheless, in actual practice, to those not accustomed to it, such a manner of writing is rather confusing. Similarly, the various peculiarities of the Gorean chronological terms "Ihn", "Ehn" and "Ahn," as well as the unusual measurement of the passage of years with the phrases "Contasta Ar" and "Of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains" can be a bit hard to decipher. I have therefore taken the liberty of translating these things into their equivalent Earth counterparts for ease of reference.

Here, then, are the standard Gorean measurements for time, along with their Earth equivalents:

Ihn: Gorean Second; equals 1.35 Earth seconds

Ehn: Gorean Minute (80 Ihn); equals 108 Earth seconds

Ahn: Gorean Hour (40 Ehn); equals 72 Earth minutes

Day: 20 Ahn; equals 24 Earth hours

AHN OF THE GOREAN DAY

EARTH HOUR GOREAN AHN

12:01 AM-1:12 AM 1st Ahn

1:13 AM-2:24 AM 2nd Ahn

2:25 AM-3:36 AM 3rd Ahn

3:37 AM-4:48 AM 4th Ahn

4:49 AM-6:00 AM 5th Ahn

6:01 AM-7:12 AM 6th Ahn

7:13 AM-8:24 AM 7th Ahn

8:25 AM-9:36 AM 8th Ahn

9:37 AM-10:48 AM 9th Ahn

10:49 AM-12:00 PM 10th Ahn (Gorean Noon)

12:01 PM-1:12 PM 11th Ahn

1:13 PM-2:24 PM 12th Ahn

2:25 PM-3:36 PM 13th Ahn

3:37 PM-4:48 PM 14th Ahn

4:49 PM-6:00 PM 15th Ahn

6:01 PM-7:12 PM 16th Ahn

7:13 PM-8:24 PM 17th Ahn

8:25 PM-9:36 PM 18th Ahn

9:37 PM-10:48 PM 19th Ahn

10:49 PM-12:00 AM 20th Ahn (Gorean Midnight)

THE STANDARD GOREAN YEAR

GOREAN MONTHS

The Gorean calendar is divided into twelve twenty-five day months. Each month consists of five weeks (Hands), each of which is five days long. Each month is separated from the month which follows it by a five day "Passage Hand" which marks the passage from one month to the next. Following the normal Passage Hand which marks the end of the twelfth Gorean month is a five day period known as "The Waiting Hand" during which most Goreans mourn the passing of the old year. The Waiting Hand concludes the eve of the Vernal equinox, and the following day is the Gorean New Year. The first Hand of the month of En'Kara begins on the next day after. Every fourth year (leap year) the Gorean New Year is celebrated on a separate day between the Waiting Hand of the previous year and the first day of the first Hand of En`Kara. The calendar below lists the Gorean hands and months along with their equivalent dates according to the calendar of Earth, as calculated from the orbital ecliptic of the twin planets.

THE GOREAN YEAR

MONTH OF EN'KARA (The First Turning)

March 21-March 25: First Hand

March 26-March 30: Second Hand

March 31-April 4: Third Hand

April 5-April 9: Fourth Hand

April 10-April 14: Fifth Hand

April 15-April 19: First Passage Hand



MONTH OF HESIUS (Ar)

April 20-April 24: First Hand

April 25-April 29: Second Hand

April 30-May 4: Third Hand

May 5-May 9: Fourth Hand

May 10-May 14: Fifth Hand

May 15-May 19: Second Passage Hand



MONTH OF CAMERIUS (Ar)/ SELNAR (Ko-ro-ba)

May 20-May 24: First Hand

May 25-May 29: Second Hand

May 30-June 3: Third Hand

June 4-June 8: Fourth Hand

June 9-June 13: Fifth Hand

June 14-June 18: Third Passage Hand



MONTH OF EN`VAR (The First Resting)



June 19-June 23: First Hand

June 24-June 28: Second Hand

June 29-July 3: Third Hand

July 4-July 8: Fourth Hand

July 9-July 13: Fifth Hand

July 14-July 18: Fourth Passage Hand

FIFTH MONTH

July 19-July 23: First Hand

July 24-July 28: Second Hand

July 29-August 2: Third Hand

August 3-August 7: Fourth Hand

August 8-August 12: Fifth Hand

August 13-August 17: Fifth Passage Hand



SIXTH MONTH

August 18-August 22: First Hand

August 23-August 27: Second Hand

August 28-September 1: Third Hand

September 2-September 6: Fourth Hand

September 7-September 11: Fifth Hand

September 12-September 16: Sixth Passage Hand

MONTH OF SE'KARA (The Second Turning)

September 17-September 21: First Hand

September 22-September 26: Second Hand

September 27-October 1: Third Hand

October 2-October 6: Fourth Hand

October 7-October 11: Fifth Hand

October 12-October 16: Seventh Passage Hand

EIGHTH MONTH

October 17-October 21: First Hand

October 22-October 26: Second Hand

October 27-October 31: Third Hand

November 1-November 5: Fourth Hand

November 6-November 10: Fifth Hand

November 11-November 15: Eighth Passage Han

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NINTH MONTH

November 16-November 20: First Hand

November 21-November 25: Second Hand

November 26- November 30: Third Hand

December 1-December 5: Fourth Hand

December 6-December 10: Fifth Hand

December 11-December 15: Ninth Passage Hand



MONTH OF SE`VAR (The Second Resting)

December 16-December 20: First Hand

December 21-December 25: Second Hand

December 26-December 30: Third Hand

December 31-January 4: Fourth Hand

January 5-Jaunuary 9: Fifth Hand

January 10-January 14: Tenth Passage Hand



ELEVENTH MONTH

January 15-January 19: First Hand

January 20-January 24: Second Hand

January 25-January 29: Third Hand

January 30-February 3: Fourth Hand

February 4-February 8: Fifth Hand

February 9-February 13: Eleventh Passage Hand

TWELFTH MONTH

February 14-February 18: First Hand

February 19-February 23: Second Hand

February 24-February 28: Third Hand

March 1-March 5: Fourth Hand

March 6-March 10: Fifth Hand

March 11-March 15: Twelfth Passage Hand

March 16-March 20: The Waiting Hand

GOREAN HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS

Below is a listing of various Gorean holidays and festivals; most are mentioned in the books themselves, but a few are new Gorean holidays pertinent to those who frequent the Silk&Steel Tavern. They are listed along with their equivalent Earth dates.

GOREAN NEW YEAR: On the day of the Vernal equinox (March 21), many northern Gorean cities, including Ar, celebrate the Gorean New Year. Typically upon this day a celebration takes place, doors are painted green, and a city-wide festival is held, lasting for two full Gorean hands (ten days). Every fourth year the New Year is celebrated on the extra day which occurs between the Waiting Hand and the day of the equinox.

SARDAR FAIRS: The Gorean equivalent of the World's Fair on Earth, these are four huge trade fairs which are held quarterly in the shadow of the Sardar Mountain Range. Each young person of Gor is expected to make a pilgrimage to the foot of the Sardar Mountains before he or she reaches their 25th birthday. They typically last ten full days (plus at least that long for set up and break down) and are scheduled to coincide with the solstices and equinoxes. Therefore, the four annual Fairs are:

The Fair of En'Kara (March 21st-March 30th)

The Fair of En`Var (June 19th-June 28th)

The Fair of Se`Kara (September 22nd-October 1st)

The Fair of Se`Var (December 21st-December 30th)

THE PLANTING FEAST OF SA-TARNA:A complex feast celebrated by most Gorean cities early during the growing season, and believed by many to ensure a plentiful harvest for the year ahead. Numerous rituals are performed during the three days of the feast (April 16th-18th) by members of the caste of Initiates, and members of each of the five high castes perform their own part of the ceremony during that three-day period. Most of these rituals consist of sacrifices or prayers to the Priest Kings conducted in the presence of the city Home Stone. On the final eve of the feast, the Home Stone is placed beneath the sky, typically atop the tallest cylinder in the city, and sprinkled with sa-tarna grain and ka-la-na wine by a dignitary of the city, often the Administrator, Ubar, or a member of the ruling family.

THE RETURN TO TURIA: The last day of the Second Hand of En'Kara (March 30th) is traditionally the day which marks the beginning of The Season of Little Grass for the Wagon Peoples, and shortly thereafter they begin the long trek from their winter pastures back to Turia.

GAMES OF LOVE WAR: The Wagon Peoples compete against the Warriors of Turia on the Plain of Stakes during the Second Passage Hand (May 15th-19th) in mid-spring, participating in various challenges and ceremonial-combats in order to exchange freewoman for slaves.

TAKING OF THE OMENS: Every tenth year, dating from 10,119 CA (1969 AD), is considered by the Wagon Peoples to be an "Omen Year." Therefore, in 10,129 CA (1979 AD) and in 10,139 CA (1989 AD), the Wagon Peoples halted their annual trek past Turia and various Omens were divined by their haruspexes regarding the future of the tribes and the safety of the bosk. This ceremony typically occurs in late spring, sometime during the month of Camerius. The next such Omen Year will be 10,149 CA (1999 AD).

TURIAN NEW YEAR: The peoples of Turia and certain other southern regions officially celebrate their own new year on the day of the Summer Solstice (June 21st). A ten day period of revelry follows, similar to the New Year celebrations in northern cities.

KAJURALIA: "The Festival of Slaves", it is held in most Gorean cities (except Port Kar, where it is not celebrated at all) on the last day of the Twelfth Passage Hand (March 15th). In Ar, it is celebrated on the last day of the fifth month (August 12th), the day which precedes the Love Feast. Upon this day, slaves may take liberties which are otherwise not permitted them during the year, including the drinking of wine and liquor, the freedom to roam at will (provided of course they do not attempt to escape from their owners permanently), the freedom to choose their own sexual partners and to couch with slaves of the opposite sex whom they find attractive, temporary suspension of all work and duties, and even the opportunity to play (minor) tricks and practical jokes upon freepersons. After the twentieth ahn, however, they are expected to be back in their respective kennels and slave quarters to resume the services required by their imbonded status; slaves who "go renegade" during Kajuralia are typically punished severely if recaptured, and are often executed for such an offense.

LOVE FEAST: Five day celebration within Ar, held during the Fifth Passage Hand (August 13th-17th). It is a time wherein many slaves are sold; the fourth day of the Love Feast (August 16th) is typically considered the climax of the festival in regard to the sale of slaves. The fifth day (August 17th) is normally reserved for great contests and spectacles in the Stadium of Blades, grand races in the Stadium of Tarns, great Kaissa championships and general celebratory feasting.

THE PASSING OF TURIA: The herds of the Wagon peoples traditionally pass closest to the city of Turia on or around the Second Hand of Se`Kara (September 22nd-26th).

FESTIVAL OF THE 25th OF SE`KARA: An annual Festival held in Port Kar to celebrate their great naval victory over the combined fleets of Cos and Tyros (October 11th).

THE THING: An annual celebration held in Torvaldsland, during which all of the shieldmen of the various Great Jarls travel to the Hall of their particular leader, submit their weaponry for inspection, and formally repledge their oaths of loyalty. The Thing usually occupies a span of from three to five days, and occurs sometime during the middle of the ninth Gorean month (mid-November), varying according to such factors as weather and the current political situation.

THE WINTERING: The nomadic herds of the Wagon peoples typically occupy their winter pastures during the period from the middle of the ninth Gorean month (late November) through the Second Hand of En'Kara (late March).

NEW YEAR (WAGON PEOPLES): The day of the Winter Solstice (December 21st) is celebrated by the Wagon Peoples as the first day of the new year, and marks the beginning of The Season of Snows. In addition, the women of the Wagon Peoples keep a calendar of their own, based upon the phases of the largest of the three Gorean moons. It consists of fifteen separate divisions, each named after one of the fifteen diiferent kinds of bosk, for instance: "The Moon of the Brown Bosk", "The Moon of the Spotted Bosk", etc.

PAGA DAY: Anniversary of the founding of the Silk&Steel Tavern (February 21st).

CARNIVAL: Held in many southern cities, notably Port Kar, during the five days of the Twelfth Passage Hand (March 11th-15th). During this celebration it is often customary to garb oneself in outlandish costumes or masks and attend various masquerade fetes and feasts.

THE WAITING HAND: This is a five day period (March 16th-20th) during which doors are painted white, little food is eaten, little is drunk and there is no singing or public rejoicing in the city. Walls and doors are adorned with sprigs and branches from the brak bush to ward off ill-luck in the coming year. On the day of the Vernal equinox, the Ubar or Administrator of the city performs a ritual "greeting of the sun," after which doors are repainted and the brak foliage is removed, beginning a ten day period of general revelry.

GOREAN YEARS: ANNUAL CHRONOLOGY

Due to the many different calendar systems in use by the cities and peoples of Gor, it would be virtually impossible to choose one such system as the primary means of measuring and listing Gorean years. Therefore, I have included eight such systems, each of which is in use in a particular geographical region of Gor, or is utilized by a particular city or culture. In such a way, it is possible to discern the particular year in which an important event occurred upon Gor, and assign it to its corresponding Earth date. I have listed no more than a few events from each city or culture, along with the Earth year in which they occurred as well as the present Earth year according to that system.

CHRONOLOGY OF AR

This is far and away the most often used and quoted system of chronology in the books; it is therefore assumed that this system is in use, or at least is understood, throughout most of the civilized regions of Gor. The abbreviation "CA" stands for the phrase "Contasta Ar," which can be translated as "from the founding of Ar."

CHRONOLOGY OF AR GOREAN YEAR EARTH EQUIVALENT 10,110 CA (Year of Pa Kur's Horde) 1960 AD 10,119 CA (Restoration of Marlenus) 1969 AD

10,137 CA (Cosian Invasion of Ar) 1987 AD

10,149 CA (Current Year) 1998 AD

CHRONOLOGY OF KO-RO-BA

In the city of Ko-ro-ba, as in many other cities, the years are reckoned according to the length of rule by the particular City Administrator who happens to be in power. Matthew Cabot, the father of Tarl Cabot, is currently the administrator of that city, a title which he retained even after the city was destroyed and rebuilt almost thirty years ago. Tarl informs us that the Earth year 1969 AD was designated as the 11th year of the Adminstration of Matthew Cabot. Each year after that one was designated in a similar fashion, as shown below.

CHRONOLOGY OF KO-RO-BA

GOREAN YEAR EARTH EQUIVALENT

Year 11 Administration of Matthew Cabot 1969 AD

Year 40 Administration of Matthew Cabot (Current Year)

(1998 AD) CHRONOLOGY OF TORVALDSLAND

In Torvaldsland the years are numbered by Rune-Priests, and the starting date (Year 1) of their chronology dates from the legendary event "Thor's Gift to Torvald," when the god Thor supposedly traded the spring of Torvaldsland to the hero Torvald in exchange for a ring of gold.

CHRONOLOGY OF TORVALDSLAND

GOREAN YEAR EARTH EQUIVALENT

1,006 Rune-Priest Year(Year of the War Arrow) 1972 AD

1,029 Rune-Priest Year (Current year) 1998 AD

CHRONOLOGY OF PORT KAR

The books are very specific about the manner in which years are numbered in Port Kar, and Tarl Cabot often makes use of the term which I have abbreviated below as "SCC." This actually represents the designation "Of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains," meaning that the chronology of Port Kar was revised almost thirty years ago to refer specifically to the year of the Council's assumption of power in that city.

CHRONOLOGY OF PORT KAR

GOREAN YEAR EARTH EQUIVALENT

Year 1 SCC(Year of Victory over Cos & Tyros) 1970 AD

Year 29 SCC (Current Year) 1998 AD

CHRONOLOGY OF TURIA

As in the case of Ko-ro-ba, above, I have dated the Turian reckoning of years from a definitive event in the city's history, namely Turia's invasion and defeat and the subsequent restoration of her Home Stone by the Ubar-San of the Wagon Peoples.

CHRONOLOGY OF TURIA

GOREAN YEAR EARTH EQUIVALENT

The Sparing of Turia 1969 AD

Year 29, Post-Invasion (Current year) 1998 AD

CHRONOLOGY OF THARNA

I have dated the chronology of Tharna from the dethronement and enslavement of the freewomen once known as the "Silver Masks." Each year since therefore bears the title "Sa`ng-fori" after it, acknowledging that each year since that event is a year of freedom for its male inhabitants.

CHRONOLOGY OF THARNA

GOREAN YEAR EARTH EQUIVALENT

Year 1 Sa'ng-fori ("without chains") 1968 AD Year 31, Sa'ng-fori (Current Year) 1998 AD

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAGON PEOPLES

The Wagon Peoples are an unusual case, as they do not number their years at all; instead they give each year a specific name relating to the most important event which occurred during that particular period. These names are not written down, but rather are entrusted to individuals known as "Year Keepers" who commit them permanently to memory to be passed down to their descendants. Fortunately, we are given the names of at least two such years in the fourth book of the series, "Nomads of Gor." CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAGON PEOPLES

GOREAN YEAR EARTH EQUIVALET

"The Year in Which Tarl Cabot Came to the Wagon Peoples" 1968 AD

"The Year in which Tarl Cabot Commanded a Thousand" 1969 AD

30th Year of the Ubar-San (Current Year) 1998 AD

Sandor said:

First, for those new to this: The Gorean monetary system is based on coins of copper, silver and gold. With a copper coin, one might buy a meal or a couple(?can't recall the passage) loaves of bread. Thus a copper is probably no LESS than one dollar American and could be as much as ten or twenty. For one or two coppers, one may rent the use of a slave for the night... (but remember that slaves are common and this is not a thing that has much worth to most Goreans.)

There are 100 copper coins to a silver coin, and there are ten silvers to a gold. Thus if a copper coin is one dollar American, then a silver is one hundred dollars and a gold would be a thousand... Coins may be refered to as Tarns or Tarsks, depending upon the city in which they were minted. There are also coins of double weight. On this same scale a gold tarn of double weight would be 2000 dollars American....

My question is what exchange rate we should consider when refering to the Gorean currency.... Should we consider a copper coin to be more like ten dollars? Making a double-weight gold about 20,000? In "Assassins" pp34-37 there is indication that a double gold is considered great riches... so perhaps 20,000 is more in keeping..?

This is my question to those who have read the books... Can you cite places in the books that give a clear indication of what coins might be worth in Earth monies (from whichever country you want to relate it to..)

If we can get a clear idea what a copper is worth, we can figure the rest from there...and I am hoping for facts from the series, relating to actual Earth prices on things, rather than opinions.... Any ideas?

--------- 2.Sat Dec 27 08:26 ~ - Subject: * - 0 reaction(s) NCDavid said:

This list comes from Renegades of Gor, p. 51. It is a listing of prices that an inn on the road to Ar's Station charged, and they are indicated as being high, but due to the nature of the fighting in the area, perhaps only supply and demand were in effect.

Bread and paga....................2 C.T.

Other food......................3-5 C.T.

Lodging..........................10 C.T.

Blankets(2).......................2 C.T.

Bath..............................1 C.T.

Bath girl.........................2 C.T.

Sponge, oil and strigil...........1 C.T.

Girl for the night................5 C.T.

T., Greens and Stable.............2 C.T.

T., Meat and Cot..................5 C.T.

"First, it might be noted that they are not typical. In many inns, depending on the season, to be sure, and the readiness of the keeper to negotiate, one can stay for as little as two or three copper tarsks a day, everything included, within reason, of course, subject to some restraint with respect to paga, and such.

Also, the bath girl, and the sponge, oil and strigil, in most establishments, come with the price of the bath itself. The prices on the list on the wall seemed excessive, perhaps to a factor of five or more. The prices, of course, were in terms of copper tarsks.

"For purposes of comparison, in many paga taverns, one may have paga and food, and a girl for the alcove, if one wants, for a single copper tarsk. Dancers, to be sure, sometimes cost two. I did not know what the 'other food' might be. One always inquires. It would vary seasonally, depend on the local suppliers, and, in some cases, even on the luck of local hunters and fishermen. In most inns the fare is simple and hearty." --Renegades of Gor, pp. 51-52

Also, to compliment your discourse on the monetary breakdown, the copper tarsk is broken down into eight tarsk bits, much like the sa-tarna loaves. So, if we divide all of the prices above by five, then I think that we can come up with what the prices would be normally for much of what is supplied by a paga tavern/inn and could charge accordingly. If you make a copper tarsk equal to a dollar, then the tarsk bit is worth about 12½ cents, and "two bits" would become a U.S. quarter, which is exactly what it was back in the "Old West".

"For example, a 'double tarn' is twice the weight of a 'tarn'. It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then eac of these halves in half. An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces. There are approximately something like one hundred copper tarsks in a silver tarsk in many cities. Similarly, something like ten silver tarsks would apparently be equivalent, depending on weights, etc., to one gold piece, say, a single 'tarn.' Accordingly, on ths approach, the equivalencies, very approximately, and probably only for certain cities, would be eight tarsk bits to the a copper tarsk; one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk; and ten silver tarks to a gold piece, a single tarn. On this approach, there would be, literally, 8,000 tarsk bits in a single gold piece." Magicians of Gor, p.469

Also in Magicians, Tarl Cabot describes even five gold pieces as being able to support a normal individual with their basic needs for many years (although not in Ar at the time due to the inflation after being "liberated" by Cos).

"Five pieces of gold, in its way, incidentally, is also a fortune on Gor. One could live, for example, in many cities, although not in contemporary Ar, with its press on housing and sortages of food, for years on such resources." Magicians of Gor, pp. 468-469

I hope that this information proves helpful. I think that I will somehow post the above list within my tavern somehow so that Patrons will know the prices. Of course, I will reduce the prices by a factor of about three. Jewel of Gleaming Thasssa is located, of course, in Port Kar, and I wouldn't want to think to be cheated. Besides, I have to give a cut to my mercenary partners, after, of course, doctoring, er, adjusting the tally sheets appropriately.

Of course, many of the supplies for my tavern come from my small fleet of seven green painted ramships plying Thassa in search of loot to plunder, er, goods to be transhipped through Port Kar for an administrative fee when such ships become becalmed and their oars somehow broken and nonusable. chuckling evilly It seems then that their Captains are more than happy to negotiate a passage to Port Kar for our normal administrative fees (cargo, ship, slaves, crew to be sold into slavery into Port Kar)

Monday, August 1, 2011

4 Mag Class - Summary of Legal Points and Principles - Quick Reference

BASIC LAWS AND PRINCIPLES TO WORK WITH - A SUMMARY
Laws and Legal Principles
1. For the most part, once you step outside the walls of your city, the city laws no longer apply and the city cannot protect you. But, ?
many cities claim sovereignty over the lands surrounding their city. They may try to enforce their will upon the surrounding ?
terrain. That is only as effective as the strength of the city. There are also exceptions for certain locations outside a city such as a ?
banner keep. In that establishment, the laws of the governing city are in force.
2. The theft of a Home Stone is punishable by extreme torture followed by death in boiling oil. It may be the most heinous crime ?
that exists on Gor. But, it is also considered the greatest of glories to steal an enemy's Home Stone.
3. A person might be slain for not standing when speaking of his own Home Stone. Home Stones are vitally important to Goreans.
4. It is illegal to take any maps of a city out of that city or for someone outside of the city to make their own map of the city.
5. The nonperformance of the citizenship ceremony, within one year of reaching intellectual majority, is punishable by expulsion ?
from the city. This applies only to those individuals born within the city or born to citizens of the city. There is no stated age for ?
intellectual majority but from circumstantial evidence it appears that sixteen years old is a possibility. There might also be a ?
requirement that some other citizens, non-blood relations, vouch for you. You may also be questioned by a committee of citizens ?
to determine your worthiness for the city. The oath of allegiance involves the touching or kissing of the Home Stone, the ?
swearing of oaths, and maybe the sharing of bread, fire and salt. A laurel wreath and mantle of citizenship are then conferred upon ?
the new citizen.
6. Retaining your citizenship is contingent upon you attending certain public ceremonies and assemblies. Citizenship is a ?
priviliege, not a right, and thus it must be earned. You are expected to owe your allegiance to the city and work at supporting that ?
city.
7. Every citizen must journey, at least once, to the Sardar Mountains before they are twenty-five years old. The Initiates keep track ?
of who goes and who doesn't. Initiates teach that misfortunes hit a city if their youth avoid this obligation. Sometimes the Initiates ?
ask you to go at a certain time. In some cities and islands, such as Teletus, your family will receive a gold tarn disk if you go when ?
the Initiates ask you.
8. Anyone who refuses to practice their livelihood or strives to alter their caste without the consent of the Ubar, Administrator or ?
High Council is an outlaw and subject to impalement. All outlaws are forbidden entrance into the city and subject to impalement. ?
Panther girls and talunas are considered outlaws.
9. Caste may be legally changed. In a Free Companionship, the woman can take the Caste of the man. Otherwise to change caste, ?
the High Council of the city must approve the change, based on your qualifications for the new caste and the willingness of the ?
new caste to accept you.
10. It is a capital offense for a locksmith to make an unauthorized copy of a key.
11. A Free Companionship lasts for a single year. If it is not renewed at the end of that time, it dissolves. Slavery and death of one ?
of the parties will serve to dissolve the Companionship early than that. A woman does not change her name in a Free ?
Companionship. The books do not say if the contract can be willingly dissolved prior to the year end if the parties so agree. It ?
seems likely most Goreans would simply wait out the year.
12. Anyone who enters a city without permission is punishable by impalement.
13. Assassins, bearing the mark of the black dagger on their forehead, are permitted entrance into a city without interference.
14. Heralds are immune from interference by any within a city. Heralds bear a gold slash on the left temple of their helmet or ?
headgear. Ambassadors possess this same immunity.
15. Players, Poets, Musicians and Singers may freely enter a city.
16. Thievery is illegal and harshly punished. The first offense is punished by an ear notching. For a second offense, the ?
punishment depends on the sex of the offender. Males are punished by the loss of their left hand and both feet. Females are ?
punished by enslavement.
17. There is a method of dispute resolution called the "rite of knives." Unfortunately, there is little information on its application. It ?
is essentially a fight to the death and is used in place of a trial. The fight may be just with daggers. As it is called a "rite", it may not ?
have any true legal effect but may instead be an ancient custom. This might even be a part of the Warrior Code.
18. To claim land outside of a city for your own, you must place a yellow stake of claimancy into the ground during the morning. ?
You must then wait and protect that land until sunset. At that time then, the land becomes yours and you may lay your Home Stone ?
there.
19. Merchant Law is the only common legal arrangement that exists between different cities. Gorean cities are fiercely ?
independent. The Sardar Fairs help to standardize Merchant Law. Merchant magistrates help administer and enforce this law.
20. Patents and copyrights are available in a city but their power extends only as far as the city walls.
21. Forgery of a city seal on products is illegal.
22. Each city commonly holds a Merchant's Foot and Stone in the Chamber of the Council and are available for Merchants to verify ?
their own personal measuring devices. Any Merchant found to be using a deceptive Foot or Stone will be punished.
23. Crests, signs and family emblems can be registered and their use legally restricted.
24. Women in the Physician's Caste cannot practice medicine until they have first bore two children. In many cities, at age fifteen, ?
women place two bracelets on their left wrist. One is removed for each child that is born.
25. Robes of concealment and veils may or may not be required by law for free women. In some cities, it is only custom while in ?
others it is actual law. Even where it is only custom, it is strongly recommended that all free women wear robes and veils in public.
26. Face stripping a free woman, forcefully removing her veils, is a serious crime.
27. Weapons are not permitted within a Temple.
28. Shaving or slicing off metal from any coin is considered to be theft and fraud. This debases the value of the coin.
Slavery Laws
29. By law, the Slavers' Caste is a subcaste of the Merchants' Caste. The Slavers though like to consider themselves a separate ?
Caste.
30. Slaves are considered property, on the same level as animals. Their owner may do anything they wish to them without ?
repercussion. An owner can even kill his own slave with impunity.
31. Slaves may not own anything, including a name. Even though they may use goods, they do not own them.
32. No Player, Musician, Poet or Singer Caste member may be enslaved within a city limits. Of course, they can still be arrested, ?
imprisoned, tortured and executed. They are simply immune from enslavement.
33. It is illegal for slaves to play Kaissa. It is considered an insult to free men, not only for a slave to play but even to touch the ?
pieces.
34. In any legal proceedings, the testimony of slaves may be taken by torture. This is solely in the discretion of the courts.
35. The property of one who becomes a slave is transferred to the nearest male relative or the nearest relative if no male exists, ?
or to the city, or a guardian. Even if the slave is later freed, the property cannot ever be recovered.
36. If a slave owner dies, his slaves pass to his heirs or if he has no heirs, to the state.
37. Capture rights pertain to all property, including slaves. Active possession of a slave is regarded as crucial by the law. A slave ?
must fully serve anyone who possesses her, even a thief. If the slave runs away from the thief, she is considered to be a runaway. ?
Free women are permitted to escape from a captor as long as they have not yet been enslaved. The point of this law is to keep ?
slaves in bondage and to make men bold. The institution of capture is honored by all cities, provided the females captured are ?
those of an enemy.
38. If a lost, stolen or runaway slave is taken by another person, the original master has only one week to regain his property ?
before legal title passes to the new master. The slave remains the property of the original master only for that one week if he ?
does not regain possession.
39. For a slave to runaway from her owner is a serious offense. For the first offense, the penalty is commonly a severe beating. ?
But she is only allowed that single mistake. The penalty for a second offense is usually ham stringing.
40. A free woman can sell herself into slavery. But, once completed, she cannot then revoke it.
41. If a free woman submits to be a slave to a specific man, and that man refuses the offer, she still shall become a slave, subject ?
to capture by the first person to collar her.
42. Slaves are not permitted outside the city gates unless accompanied by a free person.
43. It is a capital offense for a slave to wield any weapon.
44. It is a capital offense for a slave to claim caste.
45. It is a capital offense for a female slave to wear the garment of a free woman.
46. It is illegal for a slave to wear veils.
47. A child, born of a slave, becomes a slave and belongs to the mother's owner.
48. Any free woman who couches with another's slave or even prepares to do so, becomes a slave herself and becomes the slave ?
of the male slave's master. This is known as the "couching law."
49. Slaves are not allowed in temples. It is felt that they would defile it.
50. If a father cannot pay his debts, his daughter becomes a slave of the state. She will be put up for sale at public auction. The ?
proceeds of her sale will be used to equitably satisfy the creditors.
51. A free woman who cannot pay her debts will be enslaved. Under the redemption laws, a man can pay her debts and thus will ?
now own her. If no one redeems her within a certain period, she will be sold to slavers.
52. Earth girls do not have a Home Stone so there are no legalities that prevent their capture and enslavement.
53. A slave, on threat of torture and impalement, must endure whatever abuse a free person cares to inflict on him.
54. Any free person may discipline an insolent or errant slave, even one who is in the least bit displeasing. If the slave is killed or ?
injured, the free person need only pay compensation to the master and only if the master requests such compensation.
55. The crime of false yielding is a capital offense. It is easy to detect, through infallible physiological signs.
56. If a slave strikes a free person, the penalty is commonly death by impalement, preceded by lengthy torture.
57. Freed slaves require explicit papers of manumission or they may be enslaved again without repercussion. Slaves who have ?
been branded or had theirs ears pierced and later freed should definitely keep their papers handy at all times.
58. The principle of "conduct indicating suitability for the collar" deals with conduct by a free woman sufficient to warrant her ?
reduction to slavery. It is commonly applied to fraud, theft, indigency, vagrancy, prostitution, and indulgence in sensuous dance. ?
Other behavior which might trigger the principles includes attempting to spy on masters and slaves, disguising oneself as a slave, ?
garbing oneself as a slave even in the supposed secrecy of one's own compartment, baring too much flesh, lingering about slave ?
shelves and markets, and even exhibiting an interest in or fascination with bondage. The principle deals with overt behavior and ?
not thoughts. Judges must decide if such behavior is sufficient to warrant a reduction to slavery. It is illegal for someone on their ?
own to collar a free woman for this conduct without seeking legal action.
59. There is no law that states a man may enslave a free woman of his Home Stone because she has insulted or disrespected him.
60. Female slaves must wear a visible token of their slavery within the city limits. Male slaves are exempt from this law. It is not ?
good for male slaves to understand their true numbers.
61. When a person is collared, it cancels their past. They begin a new life as a slave and may not be held accountable for any ?
crimes that occurred while they were free.
62. It is illegal to sell a slave that is not your own, without the owner's permission. The penalty varies according to the sex of the ?
seller. For a man, it is exile, and for a woman, it is enslavement.
63. It is illegal to offer an unbranded slave in a public sale.
64. By recommendation of Merchant Law, there are three standard marking places for brands, on the left thigh, right thigh, and ?
lower left abdomen.
65. In some cities, a free woman that kneels before a man or addresses him as Master effects legal imbondment on herself. It is ?
interpreted as a gesture of submission
66. It is illegal to sell a slave as auburn haired if she is truly not so.
67. It is a felony to forge or falsify pedigree papers on any slave.
68. A certification of a slave girl's heat may be given in certain cities. Her degree of heat will be listed on the sale documents. It is ?
done in few cities though because of the potential for fraud on the part of the buyer. A buyer might use a girl for a month and then ?
seek a refund based on the guarantee of her level of heat.
69. Slaves are not allowed to build anything. That right is reserved for free people only.
70. It is illegal for slaves to touch or handle legal documents.
71. Slaves may not teach free people. By teaching someone, they are placed in your debt and nothing can be owed to a slave.
72. A free woman may do a form of limited self-contracting where she legally becomes a slave for a specific time period, commonly ?
ranging from one night to one year. She cannot end this contract earlier than the specified time period. Once the contract takes ?
effect, she becomes a slave with no legal powers at all. This curious contractual arrangement is not described in great detail. It ?
raises numerous legal dilemmas that can only be speculated about. The books do not state that the contract covers any ?
contigencies or limits the slavery in any way. The woman becomes an actual slave. That would seem to mean she could be freely ?
killed. What would happen is she was sold? Does the contract prevent that? Would the time period still apply if she was sold? ?
What would happen if she was stolen? This passage seems to raise far more questions than it answers.

4 Mag Class - 1pm August 1st Discussion

[13:01]  janette Inglewood: Tal everyone and welcome to week 4 of the Magistrate class
[13:02]  janette Inglewood: i have had some excellent essays on sentencing........
[13:02]  janette Inglewood: and some people claiming their pet larls ate them
[13:02]  Torin Novo: oh my.
[13:02]  janette Inglewood: so....get them done and to me asap please
[13:03]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane): no it was the ubars pet larl not mine I am allergic
[13:03]  janette Inglewood: Today i want to discuss the laws of Gor thenselves
[13:03]  janette Inglewood: i suggest You take out the law list i gave out a while back
[13:04]  Karisima Stein opens inventory to search
[13:04]  Torin Novo: Oh this is a good class. the laws
[13:05]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane): 00.3.1 Rules and Laws of Gor?
[13:05]  janette Inglewood: correct Hendrik
[13:06]  janette Inglewood: the (amended) is because it used to say weapons were allowed in a temple
[13:06]  janette Inglewood: also...i tend to call rules.....the ooc sim rules....so really this is IC laws of Gor
[13:07]  janette Inglewood: Now....this list was written by Ubar Luther
[13:07]  janette Inglewood: we know He is not infallible
[13:08]  janette Inglewood: However...whenever i have cross checked these i tend to find them accurate
[13:09]  janette Inglewood: After class i shall do a handout of something we put together that backs as many of them as we can with quotes
[13:10]  janette Inglewood: but it is up to You as Magistrates to back up Your rulings when necessary
[13:11]  janette Inglewood: Now...if you scroll down to Law number 1......
[13:11]  janette Inglewood: you will see it is the classic...city walls law
[13:12]  janette Inglewood: and as we learned in jurisdiction in week1.......
[13:12]  janette Inglewood: every city has different laws
[13:12]  janette Inglewood: by and large...most...conform to most of the ones on this list
[13:13]  janette Inglewood: but never assume that
[13:13]  Soulsearcher Skytower: it is one of the main laws of gor and ignored in sl by the idiots in power
[13:13]  MizLucie Winterwolf-Zane (mizlucie.winterwolf): <snickers>
[13:13]  Perseus Xavorin (offroadbiking): true
[13:13]  janette Inglewood: always check the laws of the city......because they overide these
[13:13]  Soulsearcher Skytower: and chokes rp off
[13:14]  Soulsearcher Skytower: stops his rant now
[13:14]  janette Inglewood: some of the laws on this list are merchant laws......some are slightly irrelevant to us...mostly
[13:15]  janette Inglewood: covering sewerage vats and so forth
[13:15]  janette Inglewood: i have never tried anyone for that one....yet
[13:15]  janette Inglewood: Therefore.......i am not saying you need to learn these off by heart
[13:16]  janette Inglewood: be familiar with them.........learn the common ones......
[13:16]  Torin Novo: You'd be impresive if you did
[13:16]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane) writes on his to do list Covering sewerage vats
[13:16]  janette Inglewood: and keep this scroll handy
[13:18]  janette Inglewood: now with law number 1...you see it does refer to sovereign territories
[13:18]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud) smiles thinking she will have a lot of time to memorize the laws ..
[13:18]  janette Inglewood: and what Soul was grumbling about was when sims extend their lwas to the whole sim....rather than the city itself
[13:19]  janette Inglewood: *laws
[13:19]  janette Inglewood: ((please remove meters......battling lag here))
[13:19]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane): @
[13:19]  janette Inglewood: Hendrik?
[13:20]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane): can you as magistrate overrule the city laws by BTB laws of ending at the city walls
[13:21]  janette Inglewood: well..in theory....outside the city walls...Merchant law applies
[13:21]  Torin Novo: @
[13:21]  janette Inglewood: so if they differ....yes....however....
[13:22]  Karisima Stein: @
[13:22]  janette Inglewood: i enforce the sovereign territory clause here in Olni....
[13:22]  janette Inglewood: my jurisdiction is all of our lands
[13:23]  janette Inglewood: Torin?
[13:23]  Torin Novo: Merchat law also applies inside the any city that wishes to be able to trade at the sardar fairs. correct? So really Mercaht law is everywhere.
[13:23]  Torin Novo: unless that city rejects them which would make them unable to trade at the fairs
[13:24]  janette Inglewood: correct......but there may be variations for example in some slave laws
[13:24]  janette Inglewood: so be careful with that assumption
[13:24]  Karisima Stein puts@ (hand) down as question was asked
[13:24]  Torin Novo: Aye
[13:24]  janette Inglewood: obvious things....coin shaving.....and all that stuff...then yes
[13:25]  janette Inglewood: but City laws overide all else in that city
[13:25]  Cara (caralea): @
[13:25]  Torin Novo nods
[13:25]  janette Inglewood: Cara?
[13:26]  Cara (caralea): This brings me back to a question I asked when classes first began. If a FW is taken from her home by force, whose laws is she truly bound by? If she is taken, is she not expected to fight aggresively to return to her Homestone? Yet to do so, in most cities, is collarable.
[13:26]  janette Inglewood: there is not a cut and dried answer....every case differs.....capture laws may well apply
[13:27]  janette Inglewood: she has the right to try to escape and you will find some of it is laid out in this scroll
[13:27]  janette Inglewood: but once branded as a slave, then she has no recourse to law
[13:28]  Cara (caralea) nods
[13:28]  janette Inglewood: and every city respects capture laws
[13:29]  janette Inglewood: Now we dont have time to discuss all 120 laws on the scroll
[13:29]  janette Inglewood: but if you look at number 2 for example......
[13:30]  janette Inglewood: you see one that is hard to translate to SL rather like some of the sentences we discussed last week
[13:30]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): @
[13:30]  janette Inglewood: mot many sim Owners are going to go with this one
[13:30]  Torin Novo laughs
[13:30]  janette Inglewood: Solace?
[13:30]  Torin Novo: You can try though
[13:30]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): what if the FWescapes and returns to her own HS then what is she still viewed as a slave ?"
[13:31]  Torin Novo: I want to watch\
[13:31]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): she would have been b randed and collared outside her HS ..
[13:31]  janette Inglewood: again that can vary......
[13:31]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud) sighs
[13:31]  janette Inglewood: in theory yes she is a slave
[13:31]  Perseus Xavorin (offroadbiking): I believe once you are branded as slave and you make it back to your city, they'll either try to collar you or give you a chance to run
[13:32]  Soulsearcher Skytower: branded is branded no exception accept manumism
[13:32]  janette Inglewood: she may however receive manumission
[13:32]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud) jaw drops .. eyes dart to Acilia as she mouths the words "WoW"
[13:32]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane) needs a travel branding set
[13:32]  Perseus Xavorin (offroadbiking): Its not really like in SL where if you make it back, the city will surround you and help you gain freedom... unless the admin/ubar gives you manumisson
[13:32]  janette Inglewood: but .....will have still been a slave
[13:32]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): oooh .... !!
[13:32]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): and who decides that ?"
[13:33]  Soulsearcher Skytower: real gor you would be punished for running and turned over to your captor
[13:33]  janette Inglewood: there is no single answer
[13:33]  Soulsearcher Skytower: marlenus rejected his own daughter after she was branded
[13:33]  janette Inglewood: every case is different Solace
[13:33]  Torin Novo: right you are not allowed to run from your captor
[13:33]  janette Inglewood: a brand is a brand
[13:33]  Acilia Rubellius (safarri.dreamscape): @
[13:34]  janette Inglewood: and as such you cannot expect anything
[13:34]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud) bottom lip begins to tremble trying to hold back the tears ..she clutches to Acilia's hand griping it tight
[13:34]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): Okay Thank You
[13:34]  janette Inglewood: Acilia?
[13:34]  Soulsearcher Skytower: sl idiots often ignore that law though
[13:34]  Acilia Rubellius (safarri.dreamscape): I thought marlenus rejected his own daughter after she had wrote a letter for him to buy her or ....something along those lines....and then he decided to reject her as only a slaves asks to be bought
[13:34]  Soulsearcher Skytower: that was part of it yes
[13:35]  Soulsearcher Skytower: but he had no intention before that to get her
[13:35]  Soulsearcher Skytower: she was a slave
[13:35]  janette Inglewood: yes......i can only repeat every case is different
[13:35]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): all I wanna know is , where is the love?
[13:35]  Acilia Rubellius (safarri.dreamscape) dies laughing
[13:35]  Soulsearcher Skytower: this is gor
[13:35]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): tthis sucks monkey ballies
[13:35]  Soulsearcher Skytower: then dont rp here
[13:36]  Soulsearcher Skytower: thats sounds cruel
[13:36]  Soulsearcher Skytower: but it is the truth
[13:36]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): yes yes I know that ..
[13:36]  Acilia Rubellius (safarri.dreamscape): It is amazingly hard to play a woman in gor....incredibly hard because you only get the short stick...and it gets shorter each time
[13:36]  Perseus Xavorin (offroadbiking): brb
[13:37]  janette Inglewood: i dont want a debate on FW....yes Gor is a Man's world.....that is the whole point of it
[13:37]  janette Inglewood: dont get captured....dont get collared
[13:38]  MizLucie Winterwolf-Zane (mizlucie.winterwolf): @
[13:38]  janette Inglewood: Lucie?
[13:39]  MizLucie Winterwolf-Zane (mizlucie.winterwolf): if we are not allowed to fight and an fc can collar us at any moment then how can we avoid it lol
[13:39]  MizLucie Winterwolf-Zane (mizlucie.winterwolf): no choice but panther
[13:39]  Eris (eris.scribe): use sweetness and femininity, if you can mix the two.
[13:39]  janette Inglewood: With tact and abiding by the laws
[13:39]  janette Inglewood: now lets move on
[13:39]  janette Inglewood: scroll down to 38
[13:40]  janette Inglewood: there a stack of very boring merchant laws here
[13:40]  janette Inglewood: these are the sort that apply everywhere on Gor
[13:41]  janette Inglewood: set at the Sardar fairs........and if a City doesnt abide by these then trade is going to get difficult
[13:42]  janette Inglewood: there is not a standard coin system across Gor.....neither in the books nor in SL
[13:42]  janette Inglewood: and money has different value in different places....just like on earth
[13:43]  janette Inglewood: then if we move on to law 63
[13:43]  janette Inglewood: we come to some of the laws that you will use the most here on SL Gor
[13:44]  janette Inglewood: slavery issues
[13:44]  janette Inglewood: law 65 for example is very clear......
[13:44]  janette Inglewood: whilst captive....you are a Free person...
[13:45]  janette Inglewood: but..once branded....collared or submitted....your legal rights end
[13:46]  janette Inglewood: 71....capture law.....these are the ones that come up a lot
[13:46]  janette Inglewood: now then....law 84
[13:47]  janette Inglewood: this is another chestnut
[13:47]  janette Inglewood: conduct indicating suitability for the collar
[13:47]  janette Inglewood: this does not mean......having opinions.....
[13:48]  janette Inglewood: saying no..........breathing too loudly........wearing the wrong coloured dress
[13:49]  janette Inglewood: so please read this one closely and consider what it says
[13:50]  janette Inglewood: Law 85 states that for a woman to be collared in her own city....it has to be done legally
[13:50]  janette Inglewood: now i have searched for quotes to back this up
[13:50]  Soulsearcher Skytower: you wontfind any it is onlinism
[13:50]  janette Inglewood: and it tends to be based on...arresting her....and calling for a Magistrate
[13:50]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane): @
[13:51]  janette Inglewood: there is not a direct quote.......but it does say...."sentenced to"
[13:51]  janette Inglewood: so Ubar Luther's basing this law on that
[13:51]  janette Inglewood: Hendrik?
[13:52]  Torin Novo: @
[13:52]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane): It states that its illegal for a person on their own to collar a free.......but what happeneds if I collar a free woman on my own
[13:53]  janette Inglewood: well...based on what i have just said......it is going to depend on the city
[13:53]  janette Inglewood: FW in their own Cities do have protection
[13:53]  Torin Novo: @
[13:53]  Kana (devon.slacker) whispers: @
[13:54]  janette Inglewood: but...it will depend on City law
[13:54]  Soulsearcher Skytower: unless it is her companion collaring
[13:54]  janette Inglewood: therefore.....here in Olni....i would have a Magistrate look at the reason for it
[13:55]  janette Inglewood: i am acutely aware as a female that i do not wish to seem as if i am defending women too much
[13:55]  janette Inglewood: and indeed i employ several male Magistrates here
[13:56]  janette Inglewood: so.....i would have one look to see the reason and if they found none....You could be accused of assault
[13:56]  janette Inglewood: however...this is city by city
[13:56]  Soulsearcher Skytower: again unless it is your companion
[13:56]  janette Inglewood laughs at her FC....yes love
[13:56]  janette Inglewood: Torin?
[13:56]  Torin Novo: This was brought up in our group discusion. If she is brought before a magistrate for conduct becoming of a slave does she go to trial or do you tend to rule on your findings?
[13:57]  janette Inglewood: seldom would i have a trial for it
[13:57]  Soulsearcher Skytower: i see a lot of cases comeing wear woman think thier companions need a magistrate is why i say that
[13:57]  janette Inglewood: were it say the Ubara...then i would
[13:57]  janette Inglewood: but in general...no
[13:58]  janette Inglewood: Kana?
[13:58]  Kana (devon.slacker): so this is saying a witness is required when you collar a girl?
[13:58]  janette Inglewood: when you collar a FW of your own homestone
[13:58]  janette Inglewood: only then
[13:59]  Kana (devon.slacker): ah
[13:59]  Kana (devon.slacker): ok
[13:59]  janette Inglewood: that is the only time a woman has such a right of protection
[13:59]  Cara (caralea): ((please excuse me all, RL calls))
[14:00]  janette Inglewood: Right then....that about brings us to time
[14:00]  janette Inglewood: homework this week......
[14:00]  janette Inglewood: read these laws
[14:00]  janette Inglewood: isolate the ones you think will be common
[14:01]  janette Inglewood: and read them again
[14:01]  janette Inglewood: if you havent given me the sentencing homework yet....get that to me soon
[14:01]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): @
[14:01]  janette Inglewood: i hope you enjoyed the class.....thank you all for participating
[14:01]  janette Inglewood: Solace?
[14:01]  Eris (eris.scribe): Thank you Lady Jan.
[14:02]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): are these all merchant laws we are looking at , correct?"
[14:02]  Karisima Stein: Thank you Lady Jan
[14:02]  janette Inglewood: no
[14:02]  janette Inglewood: a variety.......laws stated in the books...some merchant, some common civil..some regional
[14:03]  janette Inglewood: a bit of everything
[14:03]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud) blinks ... okay ... Thank You , are we suppose to figure out on are own which is which?"
[14:03]  janette Inglewood: it will be fairly clear i think
[14:03]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud) smiles with a nod "thanks
[14:04]  Acilia Rubellius (safarri.dreamscape): ok thank you janette
[14:04]  janette Inglewood: to do with trade....coin...slaves......tend to be mechant laws
[14:04]  janette Inglewood: i shall send the log in group...and the quotes scrolls in a while
[14:04]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud) smiles , thanks thats helpful
[14:05]  janette Inglewood: thank you all and be well
[14:05]  Hendrik Zane-Winterwolf (hendrik.zane): Thank you
[14:05]  Solace Gadsby  (solace.lightcloud): see ya next time , great class , which it would have been the first one , though ..lol
[14:06]  Kana (devon.slacker): Safe Paths all
[14:07]  Torin Novo: And the document with the quotes you will send out Lady Jan?
[14:07]  janette Inglewood: yes i shall
[14:08]  Torin Novo: Thank you. I look forward to that one
[14:09]  Torin Novo: Be well all. See you tomorrow.
[14:09]  Eris (eris.scribe): safe paths to all
[14:09]  janette Inglewood: be well

4 Mag Class - 6pm August 1st Discussion

[18:03]  janette Inglewood: so....welcome to class 4 of the Magistrates course
[18:03]  janette Inglewood: i shall be referring to the scroll i handed out with the list of laws on...so please have it handy
[18:04]  janette Inglewood: also...you can remove meters
[18:04]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): Oh I need it please
[18:04]  Paul Susa: I do as well what was it called?
[18:05]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): thankyou so much *smiles*
[18:06]  tresha Perl: thank you Mistress
[18:06]  Paul Susa: Ty
[18:06]  janette Inglewood: anyone not got it?
[18:06]  janette Inglewood: alright then
[18:07]  janette Inglewood: now this is a list of laws extrapolated from the books by Ubar Luther
[18:07]  janette Inglewood: we know He is not infallible of course
[18:07]  tresha Perl: tptower
[18:07]  janette Inglewood: but where i have checked them...they usually prove reliable
[18:08]  janette Inglewood: after class i shall send out in group some quotes and back up materials
[18:09]  janette Inglewood: these laws contain merchant......civil.....and some Initiate laws too.....but
[18:09]  janette Inglewood: remember that your city laws always take precedence
[18:10]  janette Inglewood: they may differ from some of these, although in most btb cities they will comply pretty closely
[18:11]  janette Inglewood: i do not expect you to learn all of these off by heart
[18:11]  janette Inglewood: indeed some of them will never come up in your careers
[18:12]  janette Inglewood: covering the sewers is the example i usually give for that
[18:12]  janette Inglewood: i have never tried anyone yet on that charge
[18:13]  janette Inglewood: so......i would like to pick on a few... and shed some light on them
[18:13]  janette Inglewood: scroll down to law number 1
[18:14]  janette Inglewood: the classic definition of city law
[18:14]  janette Inglewood: i am sure you all remember the class on jurisdiction
[18:14]  janette Inglewood: now......note the exceptions.....
[18:15]  janette Inglewood: banner keeps.......and lands surrounding the territory
[18:15]  janette Inglewood: in SL this often means the entire sim
[18:16]  janette Inglewood: for example..here in Olni we extend over 3 sims.....and i have jurisdiction in all 3
[18:16]  janette Inglewood: because if may be beyond the city wall...but the lands are still part of Olni
[18:17]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): So basically all the territory that is claimed by the city?
[18:17]  janette Inglewood: it also states about merchant law
[18:17]  janette Inglewood: yes Aria exactly
[18:17]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino) nods
[18:17]  janette Inglewood: now as you know merchant law binds all of Gor
[18:18]  janette Inglewood: and applies in and out of a city....but where a city law may differ....and they do......
[18:18]  janette Inglewood: the city law takes precedence...always
[18:19]  janette Inglewood: Now last week in our class on sentencing....we talked about the problem of applying things to SL
[18:20]  janette Inglewood: if you look at law 2....you see a perfect example of the same problem
[18:20]  janette Inglewood: i dont think many sim owners are going to go with this one
[18:21]  janette Inglewood: good morning....just claiming your sim with some yellow stakes
[18:21]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): yea i would see how that wouldnt work
[18:21]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino) laughs
[18:21]  janette Inglewood: you can go on paying tier
[18:22]  janette Inglewood: so....as always....use common sense when applying Gorean law to SL
[18:23]  janette Inglewood: at around law 33....we see a list of common merchant laws
[18:24]  janette Inglewood: from Assassins......patents......coins....and the like
[18:24]  janette Inglewood: these will apply in any city
[18:24]  janette Inglewood: indeed if they dont...that city would have trouble with any trade
[18:25]  janette Inglewood: these type of laws are agreed at the Sardar fairs....and although there isnt a standardised coin system on Gor...or on SL.....
[18:26]  janette Inglewood: things like shaving the metal from coins........or messing with weights and measures would be serious offences
[18:27]  janette Inglewood: these laws will apply in your city
[18:28]  janette Inglewood: any questions so far?
[18:28]  janette Inglewood looks around
[18:28]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): I have heard that people are trying to make a currecy system in sl gor
[18:29]  janette Inglewood: yes it happens from time to time but will never work
[18:29]  janette Inglewood: i mean there isnt one on earth
[18:29]  tresha Perl: @
[18:29]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino) nods
[18:29]  janette Inglewood: and there wont be on Gor
[18:29]  janette Inglewood: tresha?
[18:29]  tresha Perl: thank you Mistress..
[18:30]  tresha Perl: in rule 54, regarding Dar-Kosis, it states that the disease is considered a "holy" one...is that correct?
[18:30]  janette Inglewood: yes it is
[18:30]  tresha Perl: thank you
[18:31]  janette Inglewood: one of the reasons that there is not a cure for it
[18:31]  tresha Perl: yes Mistress
[18:31]  janette Inglewood: i believe the PK's wont allow it
[18:31]  tresha Perl smiles..
[18:31]  tresha Perl: yes Mistress..thank you
[18:32]  janette Inglewood: the significance to us as lawyers is the status of the sufferer is as dead
[18:33]  janette Inglewood: right...let us jump to slavery issues.....starting at law 63
[18:33]  janette Inglewood: tresha...how many laws do you think there are to protect slaves?
[18:34]  tresha Perl: tre` thinks there are around 15 to 20 Mistress regarding slaves
[18:34]  janette Inglewood: regarding......maybe but protecting?
[18:35]  tresha Perl: tre` knows of no law protecting slaves
[18:35]  janette Inglewood: the answer is.....none....very good
[18:35]  tresha Perl smiles
[18:35]  janette Inglewood: a slave has no legal status
[18:35]  tresha Perl: thank you Mistress
[18:36]  janette Inglewood: all the laws are to do with slaves as property
[18:36]  Kati Evans: @
[18:36]  janette Inglewood: therefore most of them tend to be merchant laws and therefore applicable in all of Gor
[18:36]  janette Inglewood: Kati?
[18:36]  Kati Evans: My copy must be an old one since it is not numbered the same. May I have a new copy?
[18:37]  Kati Evans accepted your inventory offer.
[18:38]  janette Inglewood: slavery issues begin at 63 Kati
[18:38]  Kati Evans: thx
[18:39]  janette Inglewood: Law 73 is one that is quite commonly evoked
[18:39]  janette Inglewood: the Owner of a slave has 5 days....one Gorean hand...to recover their property
[18:40]  janette Inglewood: after that time the slave belongs to the new Owner
[18:40]  janette Inglewood: obviously on SL this can cause chaos......but is also a good rp source
[18:41]  janette Inglewood: it is a merchant law.......it should not be messed with by any btb City
[18:42]  janette Inglewood: of course it may well be theft.....but we are getting into the realms of capture law.....just like the taking of a FW
[18:42]  janette Inglewood: it is the way of Gor
[18:42]  janette Inglewood: hold on to Your women as they are fair game
[18:42]  Paul Susa chuckles
[18:42]  Paul Susa: @
[18:43]  janette Inglewood: Paul?
[18:43]  Paul Susa: FW are less seen as game in the books than they are in sl
[18:43]  janette Inglewood: yes that is true......
[18:44]  janette Inglewood: but in terms of capture from an enemy they were fair game......
[18:44]  Paul Susa: In the books they occupy a place in society far above that of a wife
[18:44]  Paul Susa: Oh absolutely the fairest of all
[18:44]  janette Inglewood: where SL goes wrong is within the Homestone itself
[18:44]  Paul Susa: It is the pride of a city to defend its free women
[18:45]  Paul Susa: done
[18:45]  janette Inglewood: so...laws 83 - 85 deal with this
[18:45]  janette Inglewood: a woman in her own city has rights
[18:46]  janette Inglewood: she may speak freely......she is not a target
[18:46]  janette Inglewood: she cannot be collared without good reason.....
[18:46]  janette Inglewood: and it should be done by a Magistrate
[18:47]  janette Inglewood: the collar rattling brigade on SL get this so wrong
[18:47]  janette Inglewood: of course........if she acts like a slave.....then she will be a slave
[18:48]  janette Inglewood: but examples like....arguing with a Man......
[18:48]  janette Inglewood: slapping a slave.......
[18:48]  janette Inglewood: saying no.......
[18:48]  janette Inglewood: wearing a dress that someone doesnt like....are not grounds for a collar
[18:49]  janette Inglewood: in 84 it explains it pretty well i feel
[18:50]  janette Inglewood: Like i said regarding sentencing.....SL has plenty of slaves
[18:50]  janette Inglewood: Gorean FW were not continually threatened with the collar by the Men of their own cities
[18:51]  janette Inglewood: as captives to raiders....yes
[18:51]  janette Inglewood: or when travelling, which they didnt do too much of....then yes
[18:51]  janette Inglewood: but as prizes....it was indeed more important to protect them than reduce them to slaves
[18:52]  Paul Susa: @
[18:53]  janette Inglewood: law 71 explains capture law
[18:53]  janette Inglewood: yes Paul?
[18:53]  Paul Susa: It falls to the men to defend their companions, and if the waoman has no companion to her head of caste, I have stepped up many times to combat this behavior which is truly not gorean at all.
[18:53]  janette Inglewood: i am glad to hear it Paul
[18:53]  janette Inglewood: and i agree totally
[18:54]  janette Inglewood: here in Olni....the Warriors protect me...i am not a slave in waiting
[18:55]  janette Inglewood: of course.....i stress if a FW abuses that privelege...well then she deserves what she gets
[18:55]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): @
[18:55]  janette Inglewood: similairly i have seen FW in raids fail to run for the tunnels
[18:56]  janette Inglewood: i think to myself.....hmmm....do they seek capture?
[18:56]  janette Inglewood: Aria?
[18:57]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): When it comes to capture a fw must submit in order to actually become enslaved they have a choice on the matter. its not oh here is a collar snap brand done. fw would get an option of submitting or honorable death. am i right?
[18:57]  janette Inglewood: yes
[18:57]  janette Inglewood: they can choose death
[18:58]  janette Inglewood: of course.......again here on SL that isnt always fully understood
[18:58]  janette Inglewood: as indeed rescue isnt always either
[18:58]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino) nods
[18:58]  janette Inglewood: once collared and branded...the captive is slave
[18:59]  Paul Susa: @
[18:59]  janette Inglewood: alright ....our time draws nigh
[18:59]  janette Inglewood: Paul?
[18:59]  Nova Hafocham (novalee.eiren): ((excuse me all..should be aback.))
[18:59]  Paul Susa: Is she truly if she is captured collared branded raped and still does not submit still slave?
[19:00]  Paul Susa: I dont think she is
[19:00]  janette Inglewood: i think she is
[19:01]  Kati Evans: @
[19:01]  janette Inglewood: Her captor can refuse her wish for death.....and simply enslave her
[19:01]  janette Inglewood: once branded...she is enslaved
[19:01]  janette Inglewood: Kati?
[19:02]  Kati Evans: Do they need then to wait the five days before branding her?
[19:02]  Kati Evans: Or should they?
[19:02]  janette Inglewood: no
[19:03]  janette Inglewood: her main hope is to be rescued quickly........
[19:03]  janette Inglewood: taken by someone as a FW.....receive manumission
[19:04]  janette Inglewood: she is subject to capture laws
[19:05]  janette Inglewood: i take your point about 5 days to reclaim her under merchant law....as with a slave
[19:05]  janette Inglewood: but when they rescue you...if branded......you are legally a slave
[19:06]  janette Inglewood: they dont have to wait 5 days to brand you
[19:07]  janette Inglewood: alright then.......any last questions?
[19:07]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): nope
[19:07]  Paul Susa: What would you like done with the essays?
[19:08]  janette Inglewood: if you have not done the sentencing essay yet.....please get it to me soon
[19:08]  janette Inglewood: this week's homework is to read the law scroll
[19:08]  janette Inglewood: no need to memorise it
[19:08]  janette Inglewood: just understand it
[19:09]  janette Inglewood: i hope you enjoyed the class....
[19:09]  janette Inglewood: thank you all for taking part
[19:09]  Kati Evans: Thank you
[19:09]  Paul Susa: Thank you lady jan
[19:09]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): thankyou!
[19:09]  tresha Perl smiles
[19:09]  janette Inglewood: i shall send out the log...and the materials i mentioned about quotes for the laws
[19:09]  tresha Perl: thank you Mistress
[19:10]  janette Inglewood: thank you all and be well
[19:10]  tresha Perl: Well wishes to you also Mistress
[19:10]  Aria Draconia (aria.paolino): be well :)
[19:11]  Paul Susa: I wish you all well
[19:11]  Paul Susa: Come tre
[19:11]  Kati Evans: Sleep well
[19:11]  tresha Perl: yes my Master
[19:11]  janette Inglewood: thank you

4 Mag Class - Gorean Legal Reference Part 3

Analogies are that is not permitted to animals to challenge the tethers on their necks, or flee the posts within which they find ?
themselves penned, that money must retain its value, and buying power, regardless of who has it in hand, and so on. Strictures of ?
this sort, of course, do not apply to free persons, such as free women. A free woman is entitled to try to escape a captor as best ?
she can, and without penalty, even after her first night in his bonds, if she still chooses to do so. If she is enslaved, of course, ?
then she is subject to, and covered by, the same customs, practices and laws as any other slave. The point of these statutes, it ?
seems, it to keep the slave in perfect custody, at all times, and to encourage boldness on the part of males. After the slave had ?
been in the possession of the their, or captor, for one week she counts as being legally his. To be sure, the original master may ?
attempt to steal her back. A popular sport with young men is trying "chain luck." This refers to the capture of women, either free or ?
bond, viewed as a sport. In war, of course, women of this world, slave and free, like silver and gold, rank high as booty." "Dancer ?
of Gor" page 95/6


Slave Rape
"The unauthorized rape of slave girls, without the permission of their masters, is officially frowned on in most cities, but, too, it is ?
as often winked at. There are thought to be two major advantages to the custom of permitting, and, sometimes, of even ?
encouraging, the practice. First, it provides a way of satisfying the sexual needs of young men who may not yet own their own ?
girls, and, secondly, it is thought to provide a useful protection for free women. Free women, incidentally, are almost never raped ?
on Gor, unless it be perhaps a preparatory lesson proceeding their total enslavement. There seem to be two major reasons why ?
free women are seldom raped on Gor. First, it is thought that they, being free, are to be accorded the highest respect, and, ?
secondly, slave females are regarded as being much more desirable." "Guardsman of Gor" Page 184


Bond-maid circle
"Go to the bond-maid circle," said Ivar Forkbeard, indicating the circle he had drawn in the dirt. The women cried out in misery. To ?
enter the circle, if one is a female, is, by the laws of Torvaldsland, to declare oneself a bond-maid. A woman, of course, need not ?
enter the circle of her own free will. She may, for example be thrown within it naked and bound. Howsoever, she enters the circle, ?
voluntarily or by force, free or secured, she emerges from it, by the laws of Torvaldsland, as a bond-maid. " "Marauders of Gor" ?
page 44/5


Brands
"Some fellows do not brand their slaves," I said. "That is stupid!" she said. "It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, ?
"and to merchant law, as well." "Vagabonds of Gor" page 188


Discipline
"Any free man may discipline an insolent or errant slave,` I said, `even one who is the least bit displeasing, even one he might ?
merely feel like disciplining. If she is killed, or injured, he need only pay compensation to her master, and that only if the master ?
can be located within a specific amount of time and requests such compensation.` In virtue of such customs and statutes the ?
perfect discipline under which Gorean slaves are kept is maintained and guaranteed even when they are not within the direct ?
purview of their masters or their appointed agents." "Players of Gor" page 235
"The discipline of a slave may be attended to by any free person, otherwise she might do much what she wished, provided only ?
her Master did not learn of it. The legal principle is clear, and has been upheld in several courts, in several cities, including Ar." ?
"Magicians of Gor" page 122
"You cannot punish me!' she cried. 'You are not my masters!' 'Any free person can punish an errant slave girl,' I said. 'Surely you ?
do not think that her behavior fails to be subject to supervision and correction as soon as she is out of her Master's sight?'" ?
"Magicians of Gor" page 225


Touching FW
"A male slave can be slain for touching a free woman." "Kajira of Gor" page 144


Demeaning men
"Forgive me, Masters!" she wept. "You are men! You are men! A slave begs forgiveness!" Her concern was certainly not out of ?
place. The demeaning of men, whereas it is permitted to, and not unknown among, free women, is not permitted to female slaves. ?
Such, on their part, can be a capital offense." "Magicians of Gor" page 226


Failing to kneel
"Certain of these things, such as failing to kneel in the presence of a free man, may be regarded as a capital offense on the part of ?
a Gorean slave girl, even if it is inadvertent. If intent is involved in such an omission, it can be an occasion for death by torture." ?
"Players of Gor" page 252


Playing Kaissa
"I am a slave," she said. I cannot so much as touch the pieces of the game without permission without risking having my hands cut ?
off, or being killed, no more than weapons." "Players of Gor" page 235


Collars
"This was my first owner collar. The laws of Ar, incidentally, do not require a similar visible token of bondage on the bodies of ?
male slaves, or even any distinctive type of garments." "Kajira of Gor" page 269


Pretend to be Free Woman
"She had attempted to take advantage of the fact that she had not yet been branded and collared. She had attempted to pass ?
herself off as a free woman. In many cities, such a thing is a capital offense." "Renegades of Gor" page 389


Attacking free persons
"When one who is a slave strikes a free person the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceded by lengthy torture." ?
"Assassins of Gor" page 74
"A girl dares not raise a weapon against a free man. Some girls have been slain, or had their hands cut off, for so much as ?
touching a weapon." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 200
"It can be a capital offense on Gor, incidentally, for a slave to so much as touch a weapon." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 57


MERCHANT LAW

Technology
"Weapon technology is controlled to the point where the most powerful devices of war are the crossbow and lance. Further, there ?
is no mechnanized transportion or communication equipment or detection devices such as the radar and sonar equipment so ?
much in evidence in the military establishments of your world. From time to time these items are produced, but their owners are ?
then destroyed, burthing into flame. It is the Flame Death merely to possess a weapon of the interdicted sort." "Tarnsman of Gor" ?
page 31

Neutrality
"He himself resided, I understood, in Telnus, the capital of Cos, where his company had its headquarters. His work chains, ?
however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments. They might, accordingly, and sometimes ?
did, work for both sides in given conflicts." "Dancer of Gor" page 322


Slave Wars
"She was referring to a series of wars, loosely referred to as the Slave Wars, which occurred among various cities in the middle ?
latitudes of Gor, off and on, over a period of approximately a generation. They had occurred long before my coming to Gor. ?
Although large-scale slaving was involved in these wars, and was doubtless a sufficient condition for them, hence the name, other ?
considerations, as would be expected, were often involved, as well, such as the levying of tribute and the control of trade routes. ?
Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves." "Vagabonds of Gor" Page 272


Fairs
"The fairs incidentally are governed by Merchant Law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged. ?
The commercial facilities of these fairs, from money changing to general banking, are the finest I know of on Gor, save those in ?
Ar’s Street of Coins, and letters of credit are accepted and loans negotiated, though often at usurious rates, with what seems ?
reckless indifference. Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant ?
Law when pertinent, even against their own citizens. If they did not, of course, the fairs would be closed to the citizens of that ?
city." "Priest-Kings of Gor" Page 11


Stockades
"The Merchants have, in the last few years, on certain trade routes, between Ar and Ko-ro-ba, and between Tor and Ar, ?
established palisaded compounds, defensible stockades. These, where they exist, tend to be placed approximately a day’s ?
caravan march apart. "Captive of Gor" Page 219
"Various cities, through their own Merchant Castes, lease land for these stockades and, for their fees, keep their garrisons, ?
usually men of their own cities, supplied. The stockades are governed under Merchant Law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at ?
the Sardar Fairs." "Captive of Gor" Page 219
"Normally, the merchant camp, like the better-organised military camps, not the melange that constituted the camp of Pa-Kur is ?
laid out geometrically, and, night after night, one puts up one's tent in the same relative position. Whereas the military camp is ?
usually laid out in a set of concentric squares, reflecting the fourfold principle of military organisation customary on Gor, the ?
merchant camp is laid out in concentric circles, the guards' tents occupying the outermost ring, the craftsmen's, strap-masters', ?
attendants and slaves' quarters occupying inner rings, and the centre being reserved for the merchant, his goods, and his ?
body-guard." "Tarnsman of Gor" page 166


Ports
"The representative of the Merchants, to whom I reported my business, and to whom I paid for wharfage, asked no questions. He ?
did not even demand the proof of registration of the Tesephone in Tabor. The Merchants, who control Lydius, under merchant ?
law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than ?
strictly policed." "Hunters of Gor" Page 43


Standardized Measures
"I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth ?
pounds. A Weight is ten Stone. The Weight and Stone, incidentally, are standardized through the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, ?
the only common body of law existing among the cities. The official “Stone,” actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, ?
near the Sardar. Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth ?
with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard “Stone” against it." "Raiders of Gor" page 127
"As in the case of the official “Stone”, so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the Merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, ?
as I have called it." "Raiders of Gor" Page 127/8
"Every year at the Sardar Fair there is a motion before the bankers, literally, the coin merchants, to introduce a standardization of ?
coinage among the major cities. To day, however this has not been accomplished. (...) I was not of the merchants, nor, among ?
them, of the coin merchants." "Magicians of Gor" page 411


Patents
"On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the caste knowledge. Physicians, interestingly, perhaps ?
for a similar reason, tend to keep records in archaic Gorean, which is incomprehensible to most Goreans. Many craftsmen, ?
incidentally, keep such things as formulas for certain kinds of glass and alloys, and manufacturing processes, generally, in cipher. ?
Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor. Such things do exist in ?
municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local." "Magicians of Gor" page 394


Dying Hair
"One would not wish to buy a girl thinking she was auburn, a rare and muchly prized hair color on Gor, for example, and then ?
discover later that she was, say, blond. Against such fraud, needless to say, the law provides redress. Slavers will take pains in ?
checking out new catches, or acquisitions, to ascertain the natural color of their hair, one of the items one expects to find, along ?
with fingerprints and measurements, and such, on carefully prepared slave papers." "Vagabonds of Gor" page 186


Brands and collars
"But her left thigh worn no brand. Her right thigh, too, as I soon noted, did not wear the slave mark, nor did her lower left ?
abdomen. These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant Law, for the marking of ?
Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site." "Fighting Slave of Gor" Page 312
"The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant Law." "Fighting Slave of Gor" Page 349
"In the case of the girl, Rowena, of course, as she was already a self-pronounced slave, the brand and collar were little more than ?
identificatory formalities. Nonetheless she would wear them. They would be fixed visibly and clearly upon her. This is in accord ?
with the prescriptions of merchant law." "Players of Gor" Page 36


Sharing Home Stone
"“You understand further, of course,” said he, “that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged ?
binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement. First, were you of Ar, it would be my right, ?
could I be successful, to make of you a slave, for we share no Home Stone. Secondly, though you speak of yourself as the Lady ?
Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers, you are, in actuality, Miss Elicia Nevins of the planet Earth. You are an Earth girl and thus stand within a ?
general permission of enslavement, fair beauty quarry to any Gorean male whatsoever.” "Slave Girl of Gor" page 394

4 Mag Class - Gorean Legal Reference Part 2

The next fellow had lied about his taxes. He would be hung, a hook through his tongue, in a market. His properties were to be ?
confiscated and distributed, half to be given to members of his village and half to the state. It was conjectured that, when he was ?
removed from the pole, if he were still alive, he would be more careful in his accounts.
The next to appear before Bila Huruma were two members of the nobility, a man and his companion.. He complained of her that ?
she had been unwilling to please him. By one word and a stroke of his hand between them Bila Huruma dissolved their ?
companionship. He then ordered that the man be put in the dress of a woman and beaten from the court with sticks. This was ?
done. He then ordered that the woman be stripped and a vine leash be put on her neck. She was then sentenced to a barrack of ?
askaris for a year, that she might learn how to please men.
Kisu, the rebel, in chains, was then dragged before Bila Huruma. He was thrown upon his knees. He was sentenced to the canal, ?
to be put upon the rogues’ chain, that he might now, at last, well serve his sovereign, Bila Huruma. Kisu, kept on his knees, was ?
then dragged to one side. Next to approach Bila Huruma was Mwoga, ambassador of the villages of Ukungu, representative of the ?
high chief, Aibu, who had organized the chiefs of Ukungu against Kisu, and deposed him. He presented gifts, skins and feathers, ?
and brass rings and the teeth of tharlarion, to Bila Huruma, and swore to him the fealty of the Ukungu villages. Too, to seal the ?
bonds of these political bargains, he, on behalf of Aibu, offered to Bila Huruma the very daughter of the high chief, Aibu, him self, ?
a girl named Tende, as one of his companions.
Explorers
On the other hand, there have been cases when a free woman, boldly, has donned such a garment and dared to walk in the ?
streets and upon the bridges, masquerading as a mere slave upon an errand for her master. She will not be recognized for, ?
commonly, when she goes out, she is veiled.
On the streets, now, of course, she will be taken for only another slave. She revels in this new-found freedom; she exults in the ?
bold appraisals to which she now finds herself subjected, those which free men may fittingly bestow upon a slave; she inclines ?
her head submissively as she passes. free men; should they stop her, perhaps to question her, or inquire after directions, she ?
falls to her knees before them; then, later, aroused, excited, trembling, breathless, she returns to her home and enters her ?
compartment, perhaps there to throw herself on her couch, to bite and tear at the coverlets, sobbing with unrelieved passion.
The excursions of such women, commonly, grow more bold. Perhaps they take to walking the high bridges, under the Gorean ?
moons. Perhaps they fall to the noose of a passing tarnsman. Perhaps they attract the attention of a visiting slaver. His men ?
receive their orders. She is brought to him and subjected to rude assessments. If she is found sufficiently comely she is gagged ?
and hooded, and slave iron is locked upon her body. When this caravan leaves the city she is carried away with it, another girl, ?
another piece of merchandise, in chains, bound for a distant market, and a master.
One of the most interesting examples of such a case occurred in Venna some years ago, in the vicinity of the Stadium of ?
Tharlarion, where tharlarion races are held. Several young men captured for their sex sport what they took to be a slave girl, and ?
thrust her, gagged, her hands bound behind her, into the corner of one of the giant tharlarion stables behind the stadium. They ?
discovered only after her thorough and lengthy raping and their own apprehension that they had been lavishing their predatory ?
attentions not upon a slave but upon a young and beautiful free female who had been masquerading as a slave. Obviously the ?
case was complex. The decision of the judge was generally regarded as judicious. The young men were banished from the city. ?
Outside the gate, lying in the dust of the road leading from Venna, bound hand and foot, was the girl. She was clad in the rag of a ?
slave. The young men were seen leaving the vicinity of the city leading the girl behind them, her hands bound behind her, on a ?
neck-rope.
Guardsman

HOME STONE

"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself. Good land is protected only by the swords of the ?
strongest owners in the vicinity."
"Tarnsman of Gor" page 27
"Young men and women of the city, when coming of age, participate in a ceremony which involves the swearing of oaths, and the ?
sharing of bread, fire and salt. In this ceremony the Home Stone of the city is held by each young person and kissed. Only then are ?
the laurel wreath and the mantle of citizenship conferred. This is a moment no young person of Ar forgets. The youth of Earth ?
have no Home Stone. Citizenship, interestingly, in most Gorean cities is conferred only upon the coming of age, and only after ?
certain examinations are passed. Further, the youth of Gor, in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not related ?
in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof to take ?
the Home Stone of the city as his own. Citizenship in most Gorean communities is not something accrued in virtue of the accident ?
of birth but earned by virtue of intent and application. The sharing of a Home Stone is no light thing in a Gorean city." "Slave Girl ?
of Gor" page 394
"I am surprised to hear such sentiments," I said, "from those who must once have held and kissed the Home Stone of Ar."
This was a reference to the citizenship ceremony which, following the oath of allegiance to the city, involves an actual touching of ?
the city's Home Stone. This may be the only time in the life of a citizen of the city that they actually touch the Home Stone. In Ar, as ?
in many Gorean cities, citizenship is confirmed in a ceremony of this sort. Nonperformance of this ceremony, upon reaching ?
intellectual majority, can be a cause for expulsion from the city. The rationale seems to be that the community has a right to expect ?
allegiance from its members." "Vagabonds of Gor" page 303


Treason

"You have been found guilty of treason against your city and are under the sentence of impalement," said Aemilianus." ?
"Renegades of Gor" page 379
"Her mother, before her capture, I had gathered, had been important, having been the confirmation treasurer of one of ?
Torcadino's commercial councils, the Spice Council. She had also, in her position, I had gathered, and doubtless by her influence ?
and acts, supported the cause of Cos. (...) however, aside from all such considerations, was a citizeness of Torcadino, and ?
Torcadino had been sworn to the cause of Ar. She had, it seemed, for whatever reason, presumably opportunism or greed, ?
betrayed the pledge of her Home Stone. In the case of a man this can be a capital offense. She was not a man, however but a ?
female. It was thus, doubtless, that she had not been placed on a proscription list, but only on a seizure list. It was her sex which ?
had saved her. Had she been a man she would have been hung." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 141


CITIES

"There is a saying on Gor that the laws of a city extend no further than its walls." "Outlaw of Gor" page 50
Maps

"It is illegal in many cities, incidentally, to take maps of the city out of the city. More than one fellow, too, has put himself in the ?
quarries or on the bench of a galley for having been caught with such a map in his possession." "Magicians of Gor" page 388


Building

"I knew that only those who were free would be permitted to make a city. Doubtless there were many slaves in Ko-ro-ba but they ?
would be allowed only to serve those who raised the walls and towers. Not one stone could be placed in either way or tower by a ?
man or woman who was not free. The only city I know of on Gor which was built by the labor of slaves, beneath the lash of ?
Masters, is Port Kar which lies in the delta of the Vosk." "Assassins of Gor" page 60


Entrance

"As was wise I avoided cities in my long journey, though I passed several, for to enter a city without permission or without ?
satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime, and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal impalement. Pikes on the ?
walls of Gorean cities are often surmounted with the remains of unwelcome guests." "Outlaw of Gor" page 49
"As we do have the yellow ostraka and our permits do not permit us to remain in the city after dark," said Marcus, "I think we ?
should venture now to the sun gate." Marcus was the sort of fellow who was concerned about such things, being arrested, ?
impaled, and such." "Magicians of Gor" page 9
"Kurrus, of the Caste of Assassins, entered the great gate of Ar. Guardsmen did not detain him, for he wore on his forehead the ?
mark of the black dagger." "Assassin of Gor" page 6
"When he of the Caste of Assassins has been paid his gold and has received his charge he affixes on his forehead that sign, and ?
he may enter whatever city he pleases, and none may interfere with his work." "Assassin of Gor" page 7


CASTE

Outlaws

"A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the Council of High Castes was, by ?
definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement." "Tarnsman of Gor" page 46


Caste knowledge

"On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the caste knowledge. Physicians, interestingly, perhaps ?
for a similar reason, tend to keep records in archaic Gorean, which is incomprehensible to most Goreans. Many craftsmen, ?
incidentally, keep such things as formulas for certain kinds of glass and alloys, and manufacturing processes, generally, in cipher. ?
Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor. Such things do exist in ?
municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local." "Magicians of Gor" page 394


Change Caste

"In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the Council of High Caste to raise caste. None of course would accept a lower ?
caste, and there were lower castes, the caste of Peasants for example, the most basic Caste of all Gor." "Outlaw of Gor" page 27


Codes

"Lastly it might be mentioned that it is a capital offense for a locksmith, normally a member of the Metal Workers, to make an ?
unauthorized copy of a key, either to keep for himself or for another." "Assassin of Gor" page 52


Players

"In most cities it is regarded, incidentally, as a criminal offense to enslave one of the caste of players. A similar decree, in most ?
cities, stands against the enslavement of one who is of the caste of musicians." "Beasts of Gor" page 44
"The only other caste on Gor which is generally considered, for most practical purposes, as immune from bondage is the caste of ?
players. These are the fellows who make their living from the game of Kaissa, playing it for prizes, charging for games, giving ?
instruction and exhibitions, annotating games, and so on. They are usually poor fellows but generally have little trouble securing a ?
night's food and lodging for a game or two. The general affection and respect which Goreans feel for the game of Kaissa is ?
probably the explanation for the practical immunity from bondage commonly accorded the members of the caste of players." ?
"Kajira of Gor" page 298


Musicians

"Musicians on Gor, that is, members of the caste of musicians, are seldom, if ever, enslaved. Their immunity from bondage, or ?
practical immunity from bondage, is a matter of custom. There is a saying to the effect that he who makes music must, like the tarn ?
and the Vosk gull, be free. This is a saying, however, which I suspect was invented by the caste of musicians, to protect itself from ?
bondage." "Kajira of Gor" page 297/8


Thieves

"The caste of thieves was important in Port Kar, and even honored. It represented a skill which in the city was held in high repute. ?
Indeed, so jealous of their prerogatives were the caste of thieves that they often hunted thieves who did not belong to the caste, ?
and slew them, throwing their bodies to the urts in the canals. Indeed, there was less thievery in Port Kar than there might have ?
been were there no caste of thieves in the city. They protected, jealously, their own territories from amateur competition. Ear ?
notching and mutilation, common punishment on Gor for thieves, were not found in Port Kar. The caste was too powerful. On the ?
other hand, it was regarded as permissible to slay a male thief or take a female thief slave if the culprit could be apprehended ?
within an Ahn of the theft. After an Ahn the thief, if apprehended and a caste member, was be remanded to the police of the ?
arsenal. If found guilty in the court of the arsenal, the male thief would be sentenced, for a week to a year, to hard labor in the ?
arsenal or on the wharves; the female thief would be sentenced to service, for a week to a year, in a straw-strewn cell in one of ?
Port Kar's penal brothels. They are chained by the left ankle to a ring in the stone. Their food is that of a galley slave, peas, black ?
bread and onions. If they serve well, however, their customers often bring them a bit of meat or fruit. Few thieves of Port Kar ?
have not served time, depending on their sex, either in the arsenal or on the wharves, or in the brothels." "Hunters of Gor" page ?
304


FREE MEN

Family

"Some clue, then, as to her origins, may be there," I said. Goreans are usually rather careful about such things as crests, signs, ?
family emblems, and such. Sometimes such things are actually registered, and legally restricted in their use to given lines (...)" ?
"Mercenaries of Gor" page 292


Outlaws

"A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the Council of High Castes was, by ?
definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement." "Tarnsman of Gor" page 45/6


Brigands

"Surely you are a brigand," said the woman to me. "No," I said. "Then you are a deserter," she said. "It would be death for you to ?
be found." "No," I said. "I am not a deserter." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 18


Spies and deserters

"Beside the road, on the right, a human figure, head and legs dangling downward, on each side, was fixed on an impaling stake. ?
The stake was some ten feet in height, and some four inches in diameter. It had been wedged between rocks and braced with ?
stones. Its point was roughly sharpened, probably with an adz. This point had been entered in the victim's back and thrust ?
through with great force. It emerged from the belly, and protruded some two feet above the body. "Perhaps that is a spy," I said. ?
"More likely it is a straggler or a deserter," said the driver." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 40


Thieves

"I then grew again bitter. "She sold a slave of mine," I said "unknown to me and without right." "For a man," said Peggy, "such an ?
offense is punishable by exile. For a woman, remanded by a praetor, the penality is commonly that she herself will then wear the ?
collar." "Oh?" I asked. "Yes," she said. "Enslave her." "Rogue of Gor" page 146
"Men would find us with the loot about, and impale us!" said the leader. That was not improbable. Thieves are often dealt with ?
harshly on Gor." "Renegades of Gor" page 11
"Turgus of Port Kar," said the praetor, "in virtue of what we have here today established, and in virtue of the general warrant ?
outstanding upon you, you are sentenced to banishment. If you are found within the limits of the city after sunset this day you will ?
be impaled." "Explorers of Gor" page 58
"Chain them and hang them in collars at the inn!" said a fellow. Sometimes a man lasts two or three days in this fashion.
"Chain them on the boards," cried another. That is a similar form of punishment. In it the victim is fastened, by collars and ?
shackles, on structures of parallel, upright boards, vertical platforms, in effect, mounted on posts. These structures are most ?
common in harbor cities, near the wharves. The fellow who had made the suggestion was probably from the river port of Ar’s ?
Station. In the country, impalement is often used, the pole usually being set up near a crossroads.
"Let them be trampled by tharlarion," said a fellow.
"No, let them be torn apart by them," said another. In this fashion ropes are tied separately to the victim’s wrists and ankles, these ?
ropes then attached to the harnesses of two different tharlarion, which are, of course, then driven in opposite directions.
“Yes, that is better,” agreed the first.
If one shares a Home Stone with the victim, of course, the punishment is often more humane. A common punishment where this ?
mitigating feature obtains is to strip the victim, tie him to a post, beat him with rods and then behead him. This, like the hanging in ?
chains, the exposure on boards, and such, is a very ancient modality of execution." "Renegades of Gor" page 14/5


Debtors

"Male slaves are usually debtors or criminals." "Beasts of Gor" page 236


Murderers

"Ha-Keel had been banished from Ar. It has been a matter of murder. A woman had been involved. He had captured, raped and ?
enslaved her, then selling her." "Fighting Slave of Gor" page 266
"Menicius!" he cried. "It was he who slew the Warrior of Thentis! Not I!" "I have taken gold," I told him. I would not yet speak to him ?
of Sura.
"It was Menicius!" he wept.
"It was you who gave the order," I said.
"I will give you gold!" he cried.
"You have nothing," said I, "Cernus." I regarded him evenly. "You have lost all."(...)
In an instant our blades had met in the swift discourse of flashing steel. He was an excellent swordsman, very fast, cunning, ?
strong.
"Excellent," I told him.
We moved about the room, over the tables and behind them, across the square of sand. Once Cernus, moving backward, ?
defending himself, fell over the dais, and my sword was at his throat.
"Well," I said, "will it be my steel or the impaling spear of Ar's justice?" "Let it be your steel," he said.
"Assassin of Gor" page 382/3


Enter a city

"As was wise I avoided cities in my long journey, though I passed several, for to enter a city without permission or without ?
satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime, and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal impalement. Pikes on the ?
walls of Gorean cities are often surmounted with the remains of unwelcome guests.2 "Outlaw of Gor" page 49


False accusation of slavery

"Once, in Ko-ro-ba, I saw a slaver, before a magistrate, distinguish such a girl, not even one of his own, from eleven free women. ?
Each, in turn, was asked to pour him a cup of wine, and then withdraw, nothing more. At the end, the slaver rose to his feet and ?
pointed to one of the women.
“No!” she had cried. “I am free!” officers of the court, by order of the magistrate, removed her garments. If she were free, the ?
slaver would be impaled." "Hunters of Gor" page 156


Face-stripping

"Face-stripping a free woman, against her will, can be a serious crime on Gor. On the other hand, Corcyrus had now fallen. Her ?
women, thusly, now at the feet of her conquerors, would be little better than slaves. Any fate could now be inflicted on them that ?
the conquerors might wish, including making them actual slaves." "Kajira of Gor" page 183
"Public face-stripping is the removal of the veils from a FreeWoman's face by force. This is equivalent to stripping her completely ?
naked, but not so insulting is the removal of her Robes of Concealment. This is consider the worst offense which might be ?
performed against a FreeWoman. It is the right, duty and privilege of a Gorean FreeWoman to remain veiled. Even when captured ?
by the Warriors of an enemy city, the Freewoman will commonly be allowed to retain her veils at least until her final fate has been ?
decided. Sometimes, rather, she, stripped, and presented before officers, is offered the choice between swift, honorable ?
decapitation and slavery. If she chooses slavery, she may be expected to step onto a submission mat, and kneel there, head ?
down, enter a slave pen of her own accord, or, say, fully acknowledging herself a slave, belly to an officer, kissing his feet. The ?
question is sometimes put to her in somewhat the following fashion. "If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance ?
now to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if ?
you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming at last, explicitly, a legal slave." She is then expected, ?
sometimes, kneeling, to lick the feet of a soldier, who then rapes her on the mat. It is commonly regarded as an acceptable ?
introduction for a woman to her explicit and legal slavery." "Blood Brothers of Gor" page 337


Property

"By the laws of Port Kar, the ships, properties and chattles of Surbus, he having been vanquished in fair combat and permitted ?
the death of blood and sea, became mine; his men stood ready to obey me; his ships became mine to command; his hall became ?
my h all; his riches mine, his slaves mine. It was thus that I had become a captain in Port Kar, jewel of gleaming Thassa." ?
"Marauders of Gor" page 2
"It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given ?
individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative--or ?
nearest relative if no adult male relative is available--or to the city--or to, if pertinent, a guardian. Thus if Aphris of Turia, by some ?
mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, ?
merchant of Turia. Moreover, to avoid legal complications and free the assets for investment and manipulation, the transfer is ?
assymetrical, in the sense that the individual, even should he somehow later recover his freedom, retains no legal claim ?
whatsoever on the transferred assets." "Nomads of Gor" page 103


Taxes

"The next fellow had lied about his taxes. He would be hung, a hook through his tongue, in a market. His properties were to be ?
confiscated and distributed, half to be given to members of his village and half to the state. It was conjectured that, when he was ?
removed from the pole, if he were still alive, he would be more careful in his accounts." "Explorers of Gor" page 231

Punishment of Free Man

"I gathered, from the blinding and the mark on his forehead, that the man had once offended a slaver, a man of power in the city." ?
"Assassin of Gor" page 31


FREE WOMEN

Treason

"I wished that I were a slave, that I might have a chance for life, that I might have an opportunity to convince a master somehow, in ?
any way possible, that I might be worth sparing. But I was a free woman and would be subjected to the cold and inhuman mercies ?
of the law. I was being transported to Argentum for impalement." "Kajira of Gor" page 190


Home Stone

“You understand further, of course,” said he, “that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged ?
binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement. First, were you of Ar, it would be my right, ?
could I be successful, to make of you a slave, for we share no Home Stone. Secondly, though you speak of yourself as the Lady ?
Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers, you are, in actuality, Miss Elicia Nevins of the planet Earth. You are an Earth girl and thus stand within a ?
general permission of enslavement, fair beauty quarry to any Gorean male whatsoever." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 394


Use of veils

"In some cities, and among some groups and tribes, it might be mentioned, though this is not common, veils may be, for most ?
practical purposes unknown, even among free women. The cities of Gor are numerous and pluralistic. Each has its own history, ?
customs and traditions." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 108
"She was veiled, as is common for Gorean women in the high cities, particularly those of station. In some cities the veil is ?
prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette. "Vagabonds of Gor" page 26
"In some cities an unveiled free woman is susceptible to being taken into custody by guardsmen, veiled, by force if necessary, ?
and publicly conducted back to her home. Indeed, in some cities she is marched back to her home stripped, except for the face ?
veil, which has been put on her. In these cases a crowd usually follows, to see what home it is that she is to be returned. ?
Repeated offenses in such a city usually result in the enslavement of the female. Such serious measures, of course, are seldom ?
required to protect such familiar Gorean proprieties. Custom, by itself, normally suffices." "Players of Gor" page 125
"Veils are worn in various numbers and combinations by Gorean free women, this tending to vary by preference and caste. Many ?
low-class Gorean women own only a single veil which must do for all purposes.(...) The veil, it might be noted, is not legally ?
imperative for a free woman; it is rather a matter of modesty and custom. Some low-class, uncompanioned, free girls do not wear ?
veils. Similarly certain bold free women neglect the veil. Neglect of the veil is not a crime in Gorean cities, though in some it is ?
deemed a brazen and scandalous omission." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 107
"Then he jerked away the veil of state from my features. I, though a free woman, had been face-stripped before free men. My face ?
was as bare to them as though I might be a slave. Face-stripping a free woman, against her will, can be a serious crime on Gor. On ?
the other hand, Corcyrus had now fallen. Her women, thusly, now at the feet of her conquerors, would be little better than slaves. ?
Any fate could now be inflicted on them that the conquerors might wish, including making them actual slaves." "Kajira of Gor" ?
page 183


Robes of concealment

"On Ar's Station," he said, "as in Ar, robes of concealment, precisely, are not legally obligatory for free women, mo more than the ?
veil. Such things are more a matter of custom. On the other hand, as you know, there are statues prescribing certain standards of ?
decorum for free women, For example, they may not appear naked in the streets, as may slaves. Indeed, a free woman who ?
appears in public violation of these standards of decorum, for example, with her arms or legs too much bared, may be a slave." ?
"Renegades of Gor" page 367


Attacking Men
"After all, according to the rude codes of Gor, I owed her nothing; indeed, considering her attempt on my life, which had been ?
foiled only by the fortuitous net of Nar's web, I would have been within my rights to slay her, abandoning her body to the water ?
lizards." "Tarnsman of Gor" page 92


Addressing Men

"He now had her kneeling naked at his feet, addressing him as "Master". In the Gorean culture, of course, this sort of thing is very ?
significant. Indeed, in some cities such things as kneeling before a man or addressing him as "Master" effects legal imbondment ?
on the female, being interpreted as a gesture of submission." "Players of Gor" page 139
"I called you Master!" she cried. "Am I yet legally free?" "Yes," I said, "but I think it will be well for you to accustom yourself to ?
calling free men Master." "Yes!" I decided that I would not yet grant her the collar, ripe for it though she might be. She was a free ?
woman. I would make her wait longer, in frustration, for it." "Renegades of Gor" page 147


Slave behaviour

"Gorean Free Woman is expected to keep her virtuous status or else choose the fate of an honorable death than accept eternal ?
slavery. It is very rare that a Free Woman would give up her freedom and is willing to suffer the cruel sentence of death than be ?
humiliated and degraded into bondage. Many Gorean Freewomen would rarely visit, much less frequent, a public paga tavern, as ?
such places are, in essence, a Gorean cross between a strip-joint and a brothel. The men who visit such places do so because ?
they have come to have sex with the slaves for the price of a cup of paga, or because they wish to take their ease and comfort in ?
such a den of disrepute. To the mind of the Gorean male, any FreeWoman showing true yearning desires of lust and submissive ?
behavior that is openly displayed by a collared slave girl deserves to be one. It is said eventually the FreeWoman will sooner or ?
later have to prove such accusations as false. However, if the honor of a FreeWoman, after many offenses committed, can not be ?
held She will be stripped and collared. In the mind of the Gorean male and that of the rules of Gorean society, if the slave-like ?
behavior is continued, the FreeWoman is actively wanting enslavement and is considered to be "courting the collar". It is general ?
practice to bestow upon the FreeWoman a brand and collar of her very own." "Blood Brothers of Gor" page 221
"Conduct indicating suitability for the collar," of course, can be interpreted in various ways, and more broadly and narrowly. It is ?
almost always understood, of course, fortunately for women, and as I suppose the phrase itself makes clear, in the special legal ?
sense of the phrase, as having to do with overt behavior rather than psychological predispositions and such. Many Gorean men ?
believe that all women are natural slaves, and thus, in a sense, all are eminently suitable for the collar. But even taken in the ?
appropriate, legal behavioral sense the phrase is, as may well be imagined, subject to diverse interpretations.
For example, in the present case, a judge would be expected to decide whether or not the behaviors of the sort performed, ?
constituted behavior for which the collar might be suitably imposed." "Renegades of Gor" page 372
"I had left some slave beads in recompense, of course, pretty beads of cheap wood, such as are cast about in festivals, ?
sometimes even being seized up secretly by free women who put them on before their mirrors, in secret, as though they might be ?
slaves. In many cities, incidentally, a woman who is discovered doing such a thing may be remanded to magistrates for ?
impressment into bondage." "Vagabonds of Gor" page 69


Spy on Masters

"For example, sometimes free women attempt, sometimes even disguising themselves, to spy on the doings of masters and ?
slaves. For example, they might attempt, disguised as lads, to gain entrance to paga taverns. And often such entrance in granted ?
them but later, to their horror, they may find themselves thrown naked to the dancing sand and forced to perform under whips. ?
Similarly if they attempt to enter such establishments as pretended slaves they may find themselves leaving them by the back ?
entrance, soon to become true slaves. In many cities, such actions, attempting to spy on masters and slaves, disguising oneself as ?
a slave, garbing oneself as a slave, even in the supposed secrecy of one's own compartments, lingering about slave shelves and ?
markets, even exhibiting an interest in, or fascination with, bondage, can result in reduction to bondage. The theory is apparently ?
that such actions and interests are those of a slave, and that the female who exhibits them should, accordingly, be imbonded." ?
"Magicians of Gor" page 50


Nakedeness

"For example, they may not appear naked in the streets, as may slaves. Indeed, a free woman who appears in public in violation of ?
these standards of decorum, for example, with her arms or legs too much bared, may be made a slave." "Renegades of Gor" page ?
367/8
"Contrarywise, almost no free woman would bare her legs. They would not dare to do so. They would be horrified even to think of ?
it. The scandal of such an act could ruin a reputation. It is said on Gor, any woman who bares her legs is a slave. Indeed, in some ?
cities a free woman who might be found with bare legs is taken in hand by magistrates, trialed and sentenced to bondage. After ?
the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, ?
that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be ?
offended, she is hooded and transported, stripped and chained, freshly branded and collared, a property female, slave cargo, to a ?
distant market where, once sold, she will begin her life anew, fearfully, as a purchased girl, tremulously as the helpless and lowly ?
slave she now is." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 69
"There was no crime then", she said, "in my appearing in public as I did, even thogh, say, I wore but a single layer and my calves, ?
ankles and feet were bared."
Wether the degree of your exposure was sufficient to violate the codes of decorum is a subtle point," said Aemilianus, "but I will ?
not press it."
"Surely many low-caste girls go about with only as much, or even less," she said." "Renegades of Gor" page 368


Public Dancing

"No free woman, for example, would dare place herself in such a position before Gorean free men, unless perhaps, weary of her ?
misery and frustration, she was begging them, almost explicitly, to put her in a collar. There are many stories of Gorean free ?
women, sometimes of high caste, who, as a lark or in a spirit of bold play, dared to dance in a paga tavern. Often, perhaps to their ?
horror, they found themselves that very night hooded and gagged, locked in close chains, lying on their back, their legs drawn up, ?
fastened in a wagon, chained by the neck and ankles, their small bodies bruised on the rough boards as they, helpless beneath a ?
rough tarn blanket, are carried through the gates of their city." "Explorers of Gor" page 342
"The principle he had alluded to pertains to conduct in a free woman which is taken as sufficient to warrent her reduction to ?
slavery. The most common application of this principle occurs in areas such as fraud or theft. Other applications may occur, for ?
example, in cases of indigency and vagrancy. Prostitution, rare on Gor because of female slaves, is another case. The women are ?
taken, enslaved, cleaned up and controlled. Indulgence in sensual dance is another case. Sensuous dance is almost always ?
performed by slaves on Gor. A free woman who performs such dancing publicly is almost begging for the collar. In some cities the ?
setence of bondage is mandatory for such a woman." "Renegade of Gor" page 372
"Certainly, however, not all women are legal slaves. Many women are free , legally , whether it is in their best interest or not. Such ?
dances then, "slave dances," at least on Gor, are not for such women. If a "free woman," that is, one legally free, were to publicaly ?
perform such a dance on Gor she would probably find herself in a master's chains by morning. Her "legal freedom," we may ?
speculate, would prove quite fleeting." "Dancer of Gor" page 172


Capture

"Sometimes, however, the free woman in a captured city is not, say, simply stripped, thrown down and tied, later to be turned over ?
to an iron master for the searing kiss of his white hot metal. Sometimes, rather, she stripped, and presented before officers, is ?
offered the choice between swift, honorable decapitation and slavery. If she chooses slavery, she may be expected to step onto a ?
submission mat, and kneel there, head down, enter a slave pen of her own accord, or, say, fully acknowledging herself a slave, ?
belly to an officer, kissing his feet. The question is sometimes put to her in somewhat the following fashion. "If you are a free ?
woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been ?
masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming ?
at last, explicitly, a legal slave." She is then expected, sometimes, kneeling to lick the feet of a soldier, who then rapes her on the ?
mat. It is commonly regarded as an acceptable introduction for a woman to her explicit and legal slavery." "Blood Brothers of Gor" ?
page 337
"We were put on the racks as free women," she said, "that we, the women of the enemy, be properly humiliated. Too is it not a rich ?
joke for the men of Ar that more than a thousand of the free women of Vonda adorn their pleasure racks, fastened down like slave ?
girls, their use available for a tarsk bit to the passers-by?" "Rogue of Gor" page 27
"The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided ?
females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves." "Assassin of Gor" page. 159
"Few seem to object to the institution of capture, not even the women who might seem to be its victims. On the contrary, ?
incredibly enough, their vanity is terribly outraged if they are not regarded as worth the risks, usually mutilation and impalement." ?
"Outlaw of Gor" page 51.
"Something of the nature of the institution of capture, and the Gorean's attitude toward it becomes clear when it is understood ?
that one of a young tarnsman's first missions is often the capture of a slave for his personal quarters. When he brings home his ?
captive, bound naked across the saddle of his tarn, he gives her over, rejoicing, to his sisters, to be bathed, perfumed and ?
clothed in the brief slave livery of Gor." "Outlaw of Gor" page 51/2
"On the other hand, in spite of the theories pertaining to such matters, free women are certainly not immune to the fates of ?
capture and enslavement. Many men, despite the theories pertaining to such matters, and accepting the risks involved, enjoy ?
taking them. Some slavers specialize in the capture of free women. Indeed, it is thought by some, perhaps largely because of the ?
additional risks involved, and the interest in seeing what one has caught, that there is a special spice and flavor about taking ?
them. Similarly it is said to be pleasant, if one has the time and patience, first to their horror and then to their joy, training them to ?
the collar." "Rogue of Gor" page 42
"The free women is entitled to attempt to flee her captor , as best she can, and without penalty, even after the first night in his ?
bonds, if she still chooses to do so. If she is enslaved, of course, then she is subject too, the same customs, and practices, and ?
laws, as any other slave." "Dancer of Gor" page 95/6
"She was his by legitimate capture, and he could do with her whatever he pleased. Any court on Gor would have upheld this." ?
"Players of Gor" page 15


Couching law

"I was taken pursuant to the couching laws," she said. "I see," I said. Any free woman who voluntarily couches with another's ?
slave, or readies herself to do so, becomes the slave of the slave's master. By such an act, the couching with, or readying herself ?
to couch with, a slave, as though she might be a girl of the slave's master, thrown to the slave, she shows herself as no more than ?
a slave, and in this act, in law, becomes a slave. Who then should own her, this new slave? Why, of course, he to whom the law ?
consigns her, the master of the slave with whom she has couched, or was preparing to couch." "Magicians of Gor" page 303
"Free me!" she said.
"You would have us compromise our honor?" asked Tolnar.
"I order you to do so," she said.
Tolnar smiled.
"Why do you smile?" she asked.
"How can a slave order a free person to do anything?" he asked.
"A slave!" she cried. "How dare you!"
"You are taken into bondage," said Tolnar, "under the couching laws of Marlenus of Ar. Any free woman who couches with, or ?
prepares to couch with, a male slave, becomes herself a slave, and the property of the male slave's master." "Magicians of Gor" ?
page 455


Indigence and vagrancy

"The principle he had alluded to pertains to conduct in a free woman which is taken as sufficient to warrant her reduction to ?
slavery. The most common application of this principle occurs in areas such as fraud or theft. Other applications may occur, for ?
example, in cases of indigence and vagrancy." "Renegades Of Gor" page 372
"I saw some girls rummaging through a garbage can. They wore short tunics but they were not slaves. Goreans sometimes refer ?
to such women as "strays." They are civic nuisances. They are occasionally rounded up, guardsmen appearing at opposite ends ?
of an alley, trapping them, and collared." "Kajira of Gor" page 139
"I might try to live by begging and scavenging garbage for a time as do those vagrant free women sometimes called she-urts, but I ?
being collared, could never pass by one.(...) Once or twice a year, particularly when there are complaints, or they are becoming ?
nuisances, many of them will be rounded up and taken before a praetor. Their sentence is almost invariably slavery." "Kajira of ?
Gor" page 316


Debts - redemption laws

"She lived from men, following them and exploiting them," I said. "She was a debtor slut. I paid her bills and thus came into her de ?
facto ownership, through the redemption laws." "Renegades of Gor" page 172
"Women such as these, those at the wall, would be surrendered by the management of the inn for the equivalent of their unpaid ?
bills. They would then be in the power of their "redeemers," any who might make good their debts. Lacking such a "redemption" ?
they might then expect to find themselves, sooner or later, sold as slaves. In this way the inn usually recovers its money and, not ?
unoften, turns a profit. Particularly beautiful specimens are sometimes kept by the inn itself, as inn slaves." "Renegades of Gor" ?
page 42
"Also, a female debtor, in many cities, is subject to judicial enslavement, she then coming rightlessly and categorically, identically ?
with any other slave, into the ownership of the creditor." "Magicians of Gor" page 275
"Nela had been a slave since the age of fourteen. To my surprise she was a native of Ar. She had lived alone with her father, who ?
had gambled heavily on the races. He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as ?
Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the ?
proceeds of her sale were used, again following the mandate of the law, to liquidate as equitable as possible the unsatisfied ?
claims of creditors." "Assassin of Gor" page 164
"The mills, incidentally, like certain other low slaveries, such as those of the fields, the kitchens and laundries, serve an almost ?
penal function on Gor. For example, a free woman, sentenced to slavery for, say, crimes or debts, may find herself, once enslaved, ?
by direction of the court, sold for a pittance into such a slavery. Such slaveries also provide a place to utilize women who are ?
thought to be good for little else." "Kajira of Gor" page 265


Stealing

"Her ear," I said. "Her ear was notched." Rim and Thurnock laughed. "A thief," said Thurnock. (...) I suddenly recognized the girl. It ?
was she who had cut my purse earlier in the day, the sensuous little wench, whose ear had been notched.(...) I well knew what the ?
punishment was for a Gorean female, following her second conviction for theft. "Hunters of Gor" page 47/9
"The Lady Sasi, of Port Kar," said the praetor, "in virtue of what we have here today established, and in virtue of the general ?
warrant outstanding upon her, must come under sentence." "Please, my officer," she begged. "Please sentence me only to a ?
penal brothel!" "The penal brothel is too good for you," said the praetor." "Explorers of Gor" page 58
"A female thief in Tor, even on a first offense, is immediately reduced to slavery." "Tribesmen of Gor" page 52


Self enslavement

"They had declared themselves slaves. The slave herself, of course, once the declaration has been made, cannot revoke it. That ?
would be impossible, for she is then only a slave. The slave can only be freed by one who is at the time her master, or, if it should ?
be the case, her mistress." "Explorers of Gor" page 409
'You understand, do you not,' I asked the girl, 'the meaning of this?'
'Yes,' she said.
'You may freely enter into the state of bondage,' I told her, 'but you may not freely leave it. This thing, once it is done to you, is, ?
one your part, irreversible. It is not then within your power to break, alter or amend it in any way. You will then, you see, no longer ?
be a free person, but only a slave.'
'I understand,' she said. She then turned to the young man, 'I am ready,' she said, 'Make me a slave." "Blood Brothers of Gor" ?
page 298
"Pronounce yourself slave," said Samos. The fellow relaxed his grip on the hilth.
"I am a slave," she said, pronouncing herself slave. Several of the slave girls cried out. There was now a new slave on Gor.
At a gesture from Samos the fellow with the blade resheathed the weapon, and the two guards who had held the girl in position ?
released her, standing up. She was now on her hands and knees, naked on the tiles, before the table. She looked wildly at Samos. ?
"See the slave!" laughed more than one of the slave girls pointing at her. They were not reprimended. The girl, frightened, looked ?
from face to face. The words had been spoken. They could not now be unspoken. She was now rightless, only a nameless animal, ?
incapable of doing anything whatsoever to qualify or alter her status." "Players of Gor" page 17
"In most cities, on the other hand, a free woman may, with legal tolerance, submit herself as a slave to a specific man. If he refuses ?
her, she is then still free. If he accepts her, she is then, categorically, a slave, and he may do with her what he pleases, even ?
selling her or giving her away, or slaying her, if he wishes. Here we may note a distinction between laws and codes. In the codes ?
of the warriors, if a warrior accepts a woman as a slave, it is prescribed that, at least for a time, an amount of time up to his ?
discretion, she be spared. If she should be the least displeasing, of course, or should prove recalcitrant in even a tiny way, she ?
may be immediately disposed of. It should be noted that this does place a legal obligation on the warrior. It has to do, rather, with ?
the proprieties of the codes." "Players of Gor" page 21
"He might have you sign a slave document, in the presence of witnesses. As soon as your signature is on the document, of ?
course, you are a slave. On the other hand, he might proceed even more simply. He might merely have you utter a formula of ?
enslavement, though, again, doubtless in the presence of witnesses, who might sign a paper certifying their witnessing of your ?
declaration. Let us suppose you utter such a formula. The simplest is perhaps, ‘I am a slave.’ You are then a slave. He will perhaps ?
then say, ‘You are my slave.’ This claims you. You are then his slave." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 417
"Sometimes a free woman, seeking to save her life, even at the expense of a slave, will remove the slave's collar and put it on her ?
own throat, thinking thereby to pass for a slave.(...)
What the woman in her collar seldom understands is that she, herself, is now also, genuinely, a female slave. She, by her own ?
action, in locking the collar on her own neck, as much as if she had spoken a formula of enslavement, is now also a slave." ?
"Vagabonds of Gor" page 70/1


self-contracting

"If a free woman would assure herself of a man's love she could not do better than, in effect, become his slave. She can beg of ?
him, if she senses in herself the true bondage of love, an enslavement ceremony, in which she proclaims herself, and becomes, ?
his slave. In their most secret and intimate relations thereafter she lives and loves as his slave. If a woman fears to do this she ?
may, on an experimental basis, resort to limited self-contracting, in which her documents will contain stated termination dates. ?
Thus, by her own free will, she becomes a slave for a specific period, ranging usually from an evening to a year. The woman ?
enters into this arrangement freely; she cannot, of course, withdraw from it in the same way. The reason for this is clear. As soon ?
as the words are spoken, or her signature is placed on the pertinant document, or documents, she is no longer a free person. She ?
is then only a slave, an animal, no longer with any legal powers whatsoever. She is then, until the completion of the contractual ?
period, until the expiration date of the arrangement, totally subject to the will of her Master." "Blood Brothers of Gor" page 101/2


Saving life

"And yet it was not a strange thing, particularly not on Gor, where bravery is highly esteemed and to save a female's life is in ?
effect to win title to it, for it is the option of a Gorean male to enslave any woman whose life he has saved, a right which is seldom ?
denied even by the citizens of the girl's city or her family. The Gorean man, as a man, cheerfully and dutifully attends to the ?
rescuing of his female in distress, but as a Gorean, as a true Gorean, he feels, perhaps justifiably and being somewhat less or ?
more romantic than ourselves, that he should have something more for his pains than her kiss of gratitude and so, in typical ?
Gorean fashion, puts his chain on the wench, claiming both her and her body as his payment." "Priest Kings of Gor" page 138


Selling women

"In most Gorean cities it is illegal to offer an unbranded woman in a public sale. This is presumably in deference to the delicacy ?
and sensibilities of free women. The brand draws a cataclysmic gulf between the Gorean free woman, secure in her arrogance, ?
beauty and caste rights, and the stripped, nameless, rightless slaves, suitably vended as the mere lovely beasts they are in the ?
flesh markets of this primitive, gorgeous world. Unbranded women, of course, may be sold privately, for example, as fresh ?
captures to slavers, or, say to men who have speculated that they might find them of interest." "Savages of Gor" page 101


Property

"It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given ?
individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative--or ?
nearest relative if no adult male relative is available--or to the city--or to, if pertinent, a guardian. Thus if Aphris of Turia, by some ?
mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, ?
merchant of Turia. Moreover, to avoid legal complications and free the assets for investment and manipulation, the transfer is ?
assymetrical, in the sense that the individual, even should he somehow later recover his freedom, retains no legal claim ?
whatsoever on the transferred assets." "Nomads of Gor" page 103


Caste and citizenship

"When a girl is enslaved, she loses caste, of course, as well as citizenship, rights and personhood, When she is enslaved, she ?
becomes an animal, subject to the whips and wills of Master's." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 430


Punishment

“"I suppose," I said, "I should be pleased that you did not order me to strip completely and kneel before you." "You are, of ?
course," he said, "a free woman." “Yet it seems,” I said, “ if only implicitly, you have threatened me.” "Suitable disciplines and ?
punishments may be arranged for a free woman," he said, "suitable to her status and dignity." "I am sure of it," I said, ironically.” ?
"Kajira of Gor" page 17


Judicial Enslavement

"It is a judicial enslavement," he said.
With Rim and Thurnock, moving in the crowd, I craned for a look.
I saw first the girl, stumbling. She was already stripped. Her hands were tied behind her back. Something, pushing her from ?
behind, had been fastened on her neck. Behind her came a flat-topped wagon, of some four feet in height. It was moved by eight ?
tunicked, collared slave girls, two to each wheel, pushing at the wheels. It was guided by a man walking behind it, by means of a ?
lever extending back, under the wagon, from the front axle. Flanking the wagon, on both sides, were the musicians, with their ?
drums and flutes. Behind the wagon, in the white robes trimmed with gold and purple of merchant magistrates, came five men. I ?
recognized them as judges.
A pole extended from the front of the wagon, some eight or nine feet. There was, at its termination, a semicircular leather cushion, ?
with a short chain. The girl's neck had been forced back against the cushion, and then the chain had been fastened, securing her, ?
standing, in place. As the wagon moved forward, she was, thus, forced to walk before it. The pole, projecting out from the wagon, ?
isolated her, keeping her from other human beings. The music became louder.
I suddenly recognized the girl. It was she who had cut my purse earlier in the day, the sensuous little wench, whose ear had been ?
notched. I gather that she had not had such good fortune later in the day. I well knew what the punishment was for a Gorean ?
female, following her second conviction for theft.
On the flat-topped wagon, fastened to one side on a metal plate, already white with heat, was a brazier, from which protruded the ?
handles of two irons. Also mounted on the wagon was a branding rack, of the sort popular in Tyros. It was, I conjectured another ?
instance of the cultural minglings which characterized the port of Lydius.
The wagon stopped on the broad street, before the wharves, where the crowd could gather about.
A judge climbed, on wooden stairs at the back of the wagon, to its surface. The other judges stood below him, on the street.
The girl pulled at the leather binding fiber fastening her wrists behind her back. She moved her neck and head in the confinement ?
of the chain and leather, at the end of the pole.
"Will the Lady Tina of Lydius deign to face me?" asked the judge, using the courteous tones and terminology with which Gorean ?
free women, often inordinately honored, are addressed. I looked quickly at Rim and Thurnock. "Tina!" I said.
They grinned. "It must be she," said Rim, "who drugged Arn, and took his gold." Thurnock grinned.
I, too, smiled. It must indeed be she. Arn, I supposed, would have much relished being here.
I suspected that little Tina would cut few purses in the future.
"Will the Lady Tina of Lydius please deign to face me?" asked the judge, with the same courtesy as before.
The girl turned in the chain and leather to face her judge, standing removed from her and above her, in his white robes, trimmed ?
with two borders, one of gold, the other of purple. "You have been tried, and convicted, of the crime of theft," intoned the judge.
"She stole two gold pieces from me!" cried a man standing in the crowd. "And I had witnesses!"
"It took an Ahn to catch her," said another man, laughing.
The judge paid no attention to these speakings.
"You have been tried and convicted of the crime of theft," said the judge, "for the second time."
The girl's eyes were terrified. "It is now my duty, Lady Tina," said the judge, "to pass sentence upon you."
She looked up at him.
"Do you understand?" he asked.
"Yes," she said, "my judge."
"Are you prepared now, Lady Tina of Lydius," asked the judge, to hear your sentence?"
"Yes," she said, regarding him, "my judge."
"I herewith sentence you, Lady Tina of Lydius," said the judge, "to slavery." There was a shout of pleasure from the crowd. The ?
girl's head was down. She had been sentenced.
"Bring her to the rack," said the judge.
The man who had guided the wagon from the rear, and had now locked the brake on the front wheels, went to the bound girl. He ?
unfastened the chain that bound her against the curved leather at the end of the pole; and, holding her by the arm, her wrists still ?
tied behind her, led her to the rear of the wagon, and up the steps. She then stood beside her judge, barefoot on the flat-topped, ?
wooden wagon. Her head was down.
"Lady Tina," requested the judge, "go to the rack."
Wordlessly, the girl went and stood by the rack, her back to the curved iron. The man who had brought her to the wagon now knelt ?
before her, locking metal clasps on her ankles.
He then went behind her, and unbound her wrists. "Place your hands over your head," he said. She did so. "Bend your elbows," ?
he said. She did so. "Lie back," he then said, supporting her. She did so, and was stretched over the curved iron. He then took ?
her wrists and pulled her arms almost straight. He then locked her wrists in metal clasps, similar to those, though smaller, which ?
confined her ankles. Her head was down. He then bent to metal pieces, heavy, curved and hinged, which were attached to the ?
sides of the rack, and a bit forward. Each piece consisted of two curved, flattish bands, joining at the top. He lifted them, and ?
dropped them into place. Then, with two keys, hanging on tiny chains at the sides, he tightened the bands. They were vises. She ?
might now be branded on either the left or right thigh. There was ample room, I noted, between the bands, on either side, to press ?
the iron. She was held perfectly. Her tanned thigh could not protest so much as by the slightest tremor. She would be marked ?
cleanly.
The man, placing heavy gloves on his hands, withdrew from the brazier a slave iron. Its tip was a figure some inch and a half high, ?
the first letter in cursive script, in the Gorean alphabet, of the expression Kajira. It is a beautiful letter.
The judge looked down upon the Lady Tina of Lydius. She, fastened over the rack, stripped, looked up at him, in his robes, those ?
with two borders, one of gold, the other of purple. Her eyes were wild.
"Brand the Lady Tina of Lydius," he said. "Brand her slave." Then he turned, and departed from the platform.
The girl gave a terrible scream.
There was a shout from the crowd.
The man now, swiftly, brutally, released the girl, spinning open the vises, and dropping them against the rack, unfastening her ?
wrists and ankles, and dragged her to her feet. Her hair was over her face. She was weeping.
The man's hand was strong on her arm. "Here is a nameless slave!" he cried. "What am I bid for her?"
"Hunters of Gor" page 48/51


SLAVES

Testimony

"The judge gave a signal and the long handle of the rack, fitting through a rectangular hole in the axle, moved again.
The girl winced, but she did not cry out.
"Look again carefully upon the accused," said Ibn Saran. I saw her eyes upon me. "Was it he who struck Suleiman Pasha?"
"It was he," she said.
"Are you absolutely certain?" he asked.
"Yes," she said.
"It is enough," said the judge. He gave a signal. The handle spun back. The girl's body fell into the network of knotted ropes."
"Tribesmen of Gor" page 114
"The bodies of two girls, stripped, lay on the narrow rectangle, networks, of knotted ropes, on the racks. The hand were at their ?
sides, but ropes were attached to them, and fixed on the axle of the windlass, above their heads. Both wore collars. Their ankles ?
were roped to the foot of the device.(...) Her wrists, and those of the other girl, as the long wooden handles turned, were pulled ?
up and over her head. The red-haired girl writhed on the cords. (...)
At a sign from the judge the handle moved once, dropping the wooden pawl into the ratchet notch. Her body was now tight on the ?
rack; her toes were pointed; her hands were high over her head, the rough rope slipped up her wrists, prohibited from moving ?
further by its knots and the wide part of her hands." "Tribesmen of Gor" page 111


Legal Status

"In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal. You have no name in your own right. You may be collared and leashed. You may be ?
bought and sold, whipped, treated as the master pleases, disposed of as he sees fit. You have no rights whatsoever. Legally you ?
have no more status than a tarsk or vulo. Legally, literally, you are an animal." "Explorers of Gor" page 316


Freedom

"The slave cannot free herself. She can be freed only by an owner. The condition of slavery does not require the collar, or the ?
brand, or an anklet, bracelet or ring, or any such overt sign of bondage. Such things, as symbolic as they are, as profoundly ?
meaningful as they are, and as useful as they are for marking properties, identifying masters, and such, are not necessary to ?
slavery. They are, in effect, though their affixing can legally effect imbondment, ultimately, in themselves, tokens of bondage, and ?
are not to be confused with the reality itself. The uncollared slave is not then a free woman but only a slave who is not then in a ?
collar. Similarly a slave is still a slave even if her brand could be made to magically disappear or, if she has been made a slave in ?
some other way, if she has not yet been branded. Indeed, some masters, somewhat foolishly, I think, dally in the branding of their ?
slaves. Indeed, some, perhaps the most foolish, do not brand them at all. Such girls, however, when they come into the keeping of ?
new masters, usually discover that oversight is promptly remedied." "Renegades of Gor" page 273


Home Stone

"You are an Earth girl and thus stand within a general permission of enslavement, fair beauty quarry to any Gorean male ?
whatsoever." Earth had no Home Stones. No legalities, thus, were contravened in capturing them and making of them abject slave ?
girls. "The first to capture you, owns you," he said. "Prepare to be leashed as a slave." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 394


Property
"Surely you are aware," said Saphrar, "that a slave cannot own property --- any more than a kaiila, a tharlarion or sleen." "Nomads ?
of Gor" page 132


Name
"On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not ?
being persons before the law, do not have names. That name which he has had from birth, by which he has called himself and ?
knows himself, that name which is so much a part of his own conception of himself, of his own true and most intimate identity, is ?
suddenly gone." "Outlaw of Gor" page 197


Slave Markets at the Fair
"Although no one may be enslaved at the fair, slaves may be bought and sold within its precincts." "Priest Kings of Gor" page 12


Slave Documents
"Some female slaves, incidentally, have a pedigreed lineage going back through several generations of slave matings, and their ?
masters hold the papers to prove this. It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers." "Savages of Gor" page 69
"Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, banished from that city, and nearly impaled, for falsifying slave data. He had advertised a girl as ?
a trained pleasure slave who, as it turned out, did not even know the eleven kisses." "Explorers of Gor." page 36?
"And these papers," I said, "are pertinent to you. They are all in order. I had Tolnar and Venlisius prepare them, before they left."
"Papers, Master?" he asked.
"You can read?" I asked.
"Yes, Master," he said.
"Do not call me 'Master'." I said.
"Master?" he asked.
"The papers are papers of manumission," I said. "I am no longer your master. You no longer have a master."
"Manumission," he asked.
"You are free," I told him." "Magicians of Gor" page 460


Capture
"The fact that I now realized I was subject to theft frightened me, but it, too, like many other things, seemed an attachment of my ?
condition, a simple consequence of what I was. I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law. I had ?
originally thought these rights referred to the acquisition of free women but I had later realized they must pertain, more generally, ?
to the acquisition of properties in general, including slaves. I had not thought much about such things, in a real, or practical ?
sense, until now, now that I was outside of the house. I tried to recall my lessons. Theft, or capture, if you prefer, conferred rights ?
over me. I would belong to, and must fully serve, anyone into whose effective possession I came, even if it had been by theft. The ?
original master, of course, has the right to try to recover his property, which remains technically his for a period of one week. If I ?
were to flee the thief, however, after he has consolidated his hold on me, for example, kept me for even a night, I could, actually in ?
Gorean law, be counted as a runaway slave, from him, even though he did not technically own me yet, and punished accordingly. ?
Analogies are that is not permitted to animals to challenge the tethers on their necks, or flee the posts within which they find ?
themselves penned, that money must retain i