Tashal Watch

STATE CRIMES:

Actions against the sovereign. These are deemed as the most serious of crimes and are usually the only laws enforced against nobles. They are all felonies.

PRIVILEGE CRIMES:

Crimes concerning the abuse or usurpery of some kind of privilege, obligation, or right. An offense against the social order.

• Abuse Trust: Abuse of office or position, including graft, embezzlement, accepting bribes, dereliction of duty, etc. Where a royal official is concerned, this is considered a felony.
  Penalties: Loss of office, title, and property, imprisonment, banishment, death.

• Breech Rank: Bearing heraldic arms or chivalric weapons without lawful right, disrespect for a person of noble rank, or for a lawfully appointed office.
  Penalties: Flogging, imprisonment, branding, death.

• Obstruction: Hindering an officer/noble in performing his duty. If other felonies are involved in the obstruction, this crime is deemed a felony.
  Penalties: Pillory, fine, imprisonment, hanging.

• Armaments: Wearing armaments above what is necessary for a persons rank in society.
  Penalties: Fine, confiscation, imprisonment.

SOCIAL CRIMES:

Crimes of violence against commoners. As a general rule, only common folk will suffer the more server penalties. A noble's liability is usually limited to restitution in cash or kind, if that.

• Abduction: Detention of a person against his will without lawful cause.
  Penalties: Restitution, fine, imprisonment.

• Battery: Common assault causing injury.    
  Penalties: Restitution, fine, flogging.

• Cannibalism: Eating or skinning of human bodies. The latter is not illegal in Rethem. Generally deemed a felony.
  Penalties: Death by starvation or burning.

• Manslaughter: The accidental slaying of a commoner. This is generally considered a felony.
  Penalties: Restitution, fine, Imprisonment.

• Murder: Killing a commoner without due cause or provocation. This is generally considered a felony.
  Penalties: Restitution, fine, hanging.

• Obscenity: Engaging in some prohibited sexual act such as prostitution, etc
  Penalties: Imprisonment, death by stoning. 

• Rape/Adultery: Sexual assault of a maiden, or sexual relations with a married woman.
  Penalties: Flogging, restitution, castration, death by stoning.

• Slander: False accusation, malicious gossip, etc.
  Penalties: Scolding, removal of the tongue, restitution, flogging.

ECONOMIC CRIMES:

Secular crimes that cause only economic harm. None are felonies unless royal privilege is involved.

• Breach of Guild Privilege: Usurpery of the lawful rights of a guild or guildsman, violation of guild monopoly.
  Penalties: Confiscation of property, fine, restitution, banishment.

• Forgery/ Fraud: Forging documents or coinage, possession of same, etc.
  Penalties: Fine, restitution, imprisonment, death.

• Larceny: Theft of another's belongings.
  Penalties: Pillory, restitution, fine, flogging, imprisonment, hanging.

• Piracy/ Robbery: A felony. Theft.
  Penalties: Fine, Imprisonment, death.

• Poaching: A felony on royal lands.
  Penalties: Restitution, fine, flogging, branding, banishment, hanging.

• Gathering: A felony on royal lands.
  Penalties: 200d fine and goods confiscated with no license, 50d fine and goods confiscated if license forgotten; License costs 100d

• Smuggling: A felony. Possessing, selling, or transporting, any proscribed or contraband goods.
  Penalties: Fine, Imprisonment, hanging.

• Tax Evasion: A felony. Avoiding payment of any lawful toll or tax.
  Penalties: Restitution, fine, pillory, flogging, death.

TEMPLE CRIMES:

Legally recognized churches have the right to hold temple courts and judge a variety of religious crimes. Trial by Ordeal is common but secular consent is needed for executions.