[Closed]Serious Offenses

Prof. Misclick

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Offense:
Description:
Punishment:

Offense: Armed / Magical Assault:
Description: Instigator will be arrested for serious crimes. If instigator is identified and defender proceeds to attack while peace officer is present, defender is to be arrested for serious crimes as well. Instigator is defined as the first person to cast an offensive spell or move to attack with a weapon. Note: Self-defense ends when the threat ends. Continuing to attack a surrendered attacker, or pursuing an attacker after they flee forfeits the right to self-defense.
Punishment: 1000-5000. Time in the stocks.

Offense: Breaking Oaths
Description: Peace Officials are permitted to require witnesses to sign and agree to an oath of truth. To do so, the peace official must explain that should there be evidence that the witness has lied in his statement pertaining to a particular case, he will be charged with crimes against the city and Kingdom. A Peace Official should be present during the Oath signing. The charge for violating the oath will vary depending on the degree of the violation from lesser to serious, as well as the severity of the crime being investigated.
Punishment: 1000-5000. Time in the stocks

Offense: Bribery
Description: Defined as any attempt to pay in currency or any tangible asset to a government official, or peace official in order to gain their support for or secure negligence towards any illegal activity. Peace Officials and government officials who take bribes to either of these ends shall promptly be fined for a serious crime and lose their official status for corruption.
Punishment: 1000-5000. Time in the stocks

Offense: Defiling the Dead
Description: Animation of the dead is illegal. In extreme or repeat cases, the sentences may be considered Capital. These cases include, but are not limited to: Raising undead minions for nefarious purposes, raising undead to assault the city, peace officers, nobility, etc. Defilement of the dead is also defined as any interaction made with an undead creature that does not eventually result in the destruction of said undead or the prompt fleeing from it. Certain rare exceptions may be made if the creature is conclusively deemed by Peace Officials to never be capable of threatening the common folk. Affecting 'deals' with undead such as liches or other grossly evil, intelligent undead will be considered as defilement. Having an undead creature in your company or retinue is considered defilement. To strive to become undead yourself is defilement.
Note: Undead creatures have no rights in the City of Arabel; they are protected by no laws and may be destroyed immediately if discovered. Additionally no church or organization is exempt from this law and may be held accountable if it is discovered.
Punishment: 5000-10000. Public Flogging

Offense: Drawing a Weapon on a Noble or High Priest
Description: Drawing a weapon on a noble or high priest in threat to assault is considered a serious crime. Perpetrators are typically to be given a warning first to lower their arms, but the peace official is to use their discretion in neutralizing the threat, up to and including immediate apprehension.
Punishment: 1000-5000. Time in the stocks

Offense: Impersonation of Authority
Description: Impersonating royalty, nobility, noble retainers, foreign diplomats, peace officials, Kingdom officials, official clergy, or any position of authority is a serious crime.
Punishment: 2000-10000 (Depending on severity). Time in the stocks. Public flogging.

Offense: Sacrilege
Description: Defiling a temple or officially established shrine, disrupting legal religious ceremonies, and defamation of High Priests is not tolerated. Note: This does not apply to small wilderness shrines and markers that are not consistently staffed by official clergy of the church.
Punishment: 1000-5000 (Depending on severity). Time in the stocks.

Offense: Summoning the Occult
Description: Summoning intelligent outsiders from any realm, aberrations, or undead spirits. Those caught leading or controlling occult minions will be arrested immediately. In extreme cases, the sentences may be considered Capital. These cases usually include city assaults facilitated by the summoning of the occult. This does not include extra-planar creatures such as infernally or celestially touched animals, but rather applies to powerful sentient extra-planar creatures that pose a serious risk to life and property. Those witnessed to be in the non-hostile company of an intelligent being of the occult(and not busy destroying them, fleeing from them, etc) can be assumed to be under extreme suspicion of having made a Pact or criminal association, and will be investigated as such. Note: Celestials contacted that do not pose a threat to the kingdom or the public may be exempt under certain circumstances, but the summoning and use of celestial beings in combat is unpredictable and dangerous and will not be allowed without crown approval.
Punishment: 5000-10000. Time in the stocks.

Offense: Unarmed Assault on a Noble or High Priest
Description: Unarmed assaults on nobility or high priests are considered serious crimes.
Punishment: 1000-5000 (Depending on severity). Time in the stocks.

Offense: Unlawful Magical Influence
Description: The use of spells to influence or manipulate another's actions is illegal and will be dealt with harshly.
Punishment: 5000-10000. Time in the stocks.

Offense: Trafficking of illegal items:
Description: Possession of item declared illegal under the law with intent to traffic is cause for arrest. This may be elevated to a capital crime if the seller has a truly heinous quantity of these items.
Punishment: 5000-10000. Time in the stocks

Seter

Nicely done, goodman Frosthelm.

These are agreeable, though I do have some recommended amendments, respectfully:

I would counsel you give them some unique designation, for ease of the courts and documentation, as suggested about petty offenses(I.E S-1, etc)
Guidelines will be appreciated how the fine amount is determined. I often hear of law officials abusing this and giving the maximal fine, when sometimes needless. Guidelines will prevent such
I would suggest adding another offense that deals about dereliction of duty by a government official
I would also suggest adding another offense that deals about needless abuse of authority by a government official

Signed,

Lord Mordecai of House Cormaeril
Divine Champion of the Divine Right, Siamorphe
Head of House Chapter in the region of Arabel
Ruler of Immersea
Knight of the Realm of Arabel

@Seter

Lord Cormaeril,

I will add specific designations to the final submitted draft for review prior to submission to the High Arbiter and the Crown. It is an excellent suggestion and will ensure just application of the law. The fines and punishment should be based on the seriousness of the offense and the required level to rehabilitate the subject. Someone trading in helmland mushrooms vs. someone trading in necromantic or infernal artifacts should likely not be treated with the same fine but I am open to suggestions.

Offense: Dereliction of Duty
Description: Any peace officer, militia member, or government official who willfully or through negligence fails to uphold their responsibilities, leading to harm to the Kingdom or the Populous. If the dereliction leads to great harm to the public or kingdom or directly allows a capital crime, this may be upgraded to a capital offense.
Punishment: Immediate defenestration of post. 10,000 gold fine.

Offense: Needless Abuse of Authority
Description: Any peace officer, government official, or militia member found to be using their authority for personal gain or exercising their official powers outside of the need of their duties will be guilty of abuse of authority.
Punishment: 5000 gold fine. Public reprimand. Possible defenestration of post.

-Morpheus

Modification for review,

-Morpheus

Offense: Defiling the Dead
Description: Any tampering with a body, tomb, grave, or final resting place. Graverobbing, summoning or communing with spirits, ghosts, or shadows. Making deals with or communicating with sentient undead. Seeking to become an undead.
Note: Undead creatures have no rights in Arabel; they are protected by no laws and may be destroyed immediately if discovered. Additionally no church or organization is exempt from this law and may be held accountable if it is discovered.
Punishment: 5000-10000. Public Flogging

Seter

Goodman Frosthelm,

I am pleased with these modifications.

Signed,

Lord Mordecai of House Cormaeril
Divine Champion of the Divine Right, Siamorphe
Head of House Chapter in the region of Arabel
Ruler of Immersea
Knight of the Realm of Arabel

Prof. Misclick

Begin drafting these articles for inclusion to the lawbook draft.

Sir Malcom

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