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Laws re Laws and Quotes
DIR By: Nyah691
Date: November 16, 2016, 3:16 am
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Merchant Law:
*A Law system adopted by many trade ports and cities.
*Universally applied in areas of trade.
*Merchant Law commonly binds all cities.
*Merchant law is drafted and stabilized at the fairs
*It covers as many aspects of trade and merchanting
*According to Merchant Law a slave must be branded before being
sold
*Earth women are slaves and never free persons.
*In the case of the fall of a city, girls formerly of the now
victorious city who have been enslaved, will be freed. According
to Merchant Law, the girls become briefly the property of their
rescuers and the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl. In
having been enslaved she has lost all claim to her former Home
Stone.
Quotes regarding Merchant Law:
. . . The fairs, too, however, have many other functions. . . .
It is here that Merchant Law is drafted and stabilized. . . .
---Beasts of Gor Page 44
“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 10
The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized
throughout 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.
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
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
"It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari
custom,” I said, “that I am not a slave, for though I am a
prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I
performed a gesture of submission.
---Tribesmen of Gor Page 196
The legal point, I think, is interesting. Sometimes, in the fall
of a city, girls who have been enslaved, girls formerly of the
now victorious city, will be freed. Technically, according to
Merchant Law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal
matters, the girls become briefly the property of their
rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to
Merchant Law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl. In
having been enslaved she has lost all claim to her former Home
Stone.
---Explorers of Gor Page 409
Girls such as I must expect to be marked,” she said. “It is in
accord with the recommendations of merchant law.
---Kajira of Gor Page 46
You’re going to be branded,” he said, “and put in a collar.” I
regarded him with disbelief
“But so too, will the other girls,” he said. “You will all have
your brands and collars.
I could not speak.
“Such things are prescribed by merchant law,” he said.
---Dancer of Gor Page 62
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
There is a saying on Gor, "Gold has no caste." It is a saying of
which the merchants are fond. Indeed, secretly among themselves,
I have heard, they regard themselves as the highest caste on
Gor, though they would not say so for fear of rousing the
indignation of other castes. There would be something, of
course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often
indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long
journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating
commercial agreements, among themselves developing and enforcing
a body of Merchant Law, the only common legal arrangements
existing among the Gorean cities. Merchants also, in effect,
arrange and administer the four great fairs that take place each
year near the Sardar Mountains. I say "in effect" because the
fairs are nominally under the direction of a committee of the
Caste of Initiates, which, however, largely contents itself with
its ceremonies and sacrifices, and is only too happy to delegate
the complex management of those vast, commercial phenomena, the
Sardar Fairs, to members of the lowly, much-despised Caste of
Merchants, without which, incidentally, the fairs most likely
could not exist, certainly not at any rate in their current
form.
---Nomads of Gor Page 84
"Now I surely acknowledge that the confiscation was within the
letter of the law, given the current sorry state of Ar and the
ordinances of the occupation; and I acknowledge further that she
has been out of my hands for more than the number of days which,
in Merchant Law, legitimate her seizure and claiming by another,
and I recognize, further, of course, that she has passed through
one or more hands in this time, as his or their slave, and that
she was honestly purchased in open auction, in good faith, from
her actual and completely legitimate owner, the state of Cos."
---Prize of Gor Page 520
Whereas cities have laws, and most castes have caste codes,
there is only one law which is generally respected, and held in
common, amongst Gorean municipalities, and that is Merchant Law,
largely established and codified at the great Sardar Fairs.
According to Merchant law an unclaimed slave, one legally
subject to claimancy, may be claimed, and then is the property
of the claimant.
---Smugglers of Gor Page 424
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