 Civil Law |
 JudicialThese are relevant references from the Books where Judicial is mentioned. I make no pronouncements on these matters, but report them as I find them. Arrive at your own conclusions. I wish you well, Fogaban We heard the beating of a drum and the playing of flutes. "What is going on?" I asked a fellow, of the metal workers. "It is a judicial enslavement," he said. She could not even run to Lydius, her own city, for it was there, publicly, by judicial sentence, that the degradation of slavery, by the iron, had been burned into her body. "If the presence of the criminal were required," said Kog, "it would make it impossible, in many cases, to pass judgment." "That is true," I said. "A limitation on judicial proceedings of such a sort would be intolerable," said Kog. "There is no division here," I said, "between the political and the judicial." "All law exists to serve the interests of the dominant powers," said Kog. "Our institutions secure this arrangement, facilitate it and, not unimportantly, acknowledge it. Our institutions are, thus, less dishonest and hypocritical than those of groups which pretend to deny the fundamental nature of social order. Law which is not a weapon and a wall is madness." I saw that Miles of Argentum did not wish to have Susan subjected to judicial torture, perhaps tormented and torn on the rack, even though it might validate her testimony and strengthen his case. 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. |
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