City Laws of Fina
The laws of Fina extend only to the walls of Fina. Once outside the walls, the laws nor the protections of Fina will follow unless extended specifically in writing.
Crimes against the Home Stone of Fina
Fina citizens respect the Home Stone.
1.Theft of the Home Stone
2.Failure to stand when speaking of the Home Stone
Citizenship Requirements
Citizenship is a privilege, not a right, and thus it must be earned.
1.The nonperformance of the citizenship ceremony, within one year of reaching intellectual majority (the age of sixteen), is punishable by expulsion from the city. This applies only to those individuals born within the city or born to citizens of the city.
2.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. All citizens must take the oath.
3.Retaining citizenship is contingent upon attending certain public ceremonies and assemblies. Each citizen is expected to attend as many official functions as possible.
4.Every citizen must journey, at least once, to the Sardar Mountains before they are twenty-five years old.
5.Any Fina citizen 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.
Caste Requirements
All Goreans are proud of their caste and Fina is no exception.
1.Caste may be legally changed. To change caste, the High Council of Fina must approve the change, based on the qualifications for the new caste and the willingness of the new caste to accept the citizen making application.
2.In a Free Companionship, the woman can take the Caste of the man.
3.Women in the Physician's Caste cannot practice medicine until they have first bore two children. Fina, at age fifteen, women place two bracelets on their left wrist. One is removed for each child that is born.
4.Once accepted to a caste, notification is sent out to all citizens and the accomplishment is recorded in the city records in the central cylinder.
Entering the City of Fina
Fina is well-protected by guards and implements, seen and unseen.
1.Fina is an open city during the light ahns. Visitors may pass freely through the gates, entering and exiting at their leisure; however, every person is required to leave their weapons at the gate in order to enter the city.
2.After dark, a visitor must stop at the night watch gate, leave their weapon, and seek permission to enter from a warrior of the city or a member of the High Council.
3.Assassins, bearing the mark of the black dagger on their forehead, are permitted entrance into a city without interference.
4.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.
5.Players, Poets, Musicians and Singers may freely enter the city.
6.All outlaws are forbidden entrance into the city and subject to impalement. Panther girls and talunas are considered outlaws.
7.All visitors, guests, and any other person that finds themselves within the walls of Fina are subject to all of the laws of Fina. Any violation will be adjudicated according to those laws and by Fina citizens.
Merchant Law
The only common legal arrangement that exists between different cities.
1.The standardization of foot and measure will be done at the Sardar Fair.
2.Patents and copyrights are available in a city but their power extends only as far as the city walls.
3.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.
4.Shaving or slicing off metal from any coin is considered to be theft and fraud. This debases the value of the coin.
5.The regulation of slave trade is addressed under slave laws for the city of Fina. All slavers and merchants dealing with slave flesh will be held to these laws of registration, pedigree, and transfer of ownership.
6.All merchants doing business within the city of Fina are required to pay the proper fees for docking ships, setting up vendor’s carts, imports, and exports.
7.Cities may have and hold trade alliances and agreements. All merchants of that city are expected to follow the tenants of the trade agreement forged with their city.
8.Merchants who want to purchase and put up any kind of business within the city walls will be required to become citizens.
City Security
Crimes against the City
1.It is illegal to take any maps of Fina out of the city or for someone outside of the city to make their own map of the Fina.
2.It is a capital offense for a locksmith to make an unauthorized copy of a key.
3.Forgery of a city seal on products is illegal.
4.Crests, signs and family emblems can be registered and their use legally restricted.
5.Weapons are not permitted within a Temple.
Laws Regarding Freewomen
All freewomen are guarded well by city guards in Fina.
1.The robes of concealment and veils are required by law for free women. The only exception may be according to caste practice, and that will be determined by the Ubar/Administrator.
2.Free women will not be frequenting establishments such as paga dens or slave blocks.
3.Free women will not engage in behavior that is slave-like.
4.Free women will conduct themselves in a modest and proper way at all times in the manner of having guards, escorts, and chaperones as necessary.
5.Free women in Fina have the right to speak their minds in a respectful manner.
6.A free woman of Fina will not be placed in a collar without a trial. The free women of Fina are safe within their own city walls. A woman found guilty of violating any law can be enslaved.
Land and House Laws
The sanctity of Fina will be preserved.
1.No one may build or own a house within the city walls without the express permission of the Administrator/Ubar and the High Council. A citizen may make application for a new house to be started, but no building may take place until it is approved.
2.All persons owning any land in Fina understand that, in the event they move to another Home Stone, that land will revert in ownership to the city or to the children of that person if they are Fina citizens.
3.No citizen of another city may own land in Fina. Land may be leased by permission of the Administrator/Ubar and High Council.
4.Should a citizen be deemed a danger to the city by the Administrator/Ubar and the High Council, the decision may be made to rescind land ownership privileges and the land be returned to the city. Proper notice and due process will be afforded the citizen.
General Laws
To keep the general order of Fina.
1.Face stripping a free woman, forcefully removing her veils, is a serious crime.
2.A Free Companionship lasts for a single year. If it is not renewed at the end of that time, it dissolves. A woman will not change her name in a Free Companionship. For the companionship to be dissolved prior to the one year, the Ubar/Administrator must approve such a change and the proper scrolls need to be filed in the central cylinder.
3.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.
4.Any illegal act will be addressed by and adjudicated by the Administrator/Ubar of Fina. These acts include (but are not necessarily limited to): Any of the laws and requirements listed in this scroll, theft, forgery, fraud, bringing weapons inside city walls, rape, assault, destruction of property, default on an agreement and/or contract, etc.
All documents of import to include (but are not necessarily limited to): Joining contracts, trade alliances and agreements, military agreements, business agreements, property purchases and pedigrees, adoptions, etc., must be placed on file in Fina’s main cylinder by a scribe. If not, the contract will not be recognized by the city of Fina.
