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The Homestone Guard and the City Watch enforce laws of Port Cos. Any violation of the following laws can and often results in fines and or arrest of your person.

 

All property and items to be seized and held in trust by the Administrator until which Time you are found guilty or innocent.

 

 

 

 

  1.  The Port Cos is a free port, and under the rule of the Administrator and his Deputy. Both the Administrator and his Deputy will review any allegations of law violations in order to determine guilt or innocence and punishments if applicable
  2.  The theft or attempt of theft of the Homestone is punishable by extreme torture followed by death in boiling oil.
  3.  The nonperformance of the citizenship ceremony, within one year of reaching intellectual majority, is punishable by expulsion from the city.
  4.   Retaining your citizenship is contingent upon you attending certain public ceremonies and assemblies. Citizenship is a privilege, not a right.
  5.  Every citizen must journey, at least once, to the Sadar Mountains before they are twenty-five en’vars of age.
  6.  Anyone who refuses to practice their livelihood or strives to alter their caste without consent of the Administrator and or Caste council is an outlaw and is subject to impalement.
  7.  All outlaws are forbidden entrance into the city and are subject to impalement if they attempt to do so.
  8.   Panther girls and Taluna’s entering the city, are collared immediately.
  9.  Castes may be legally changed. In free companionship, the woman can take the caste of the man. Otherwise to change castes, the Administrator and the caste council that you wish to join must approve you.
  10.    Free companionship lasts for a single en’var, if it is not renewed at the end of that time it dissolves. Slavery and death of one of the parties will serve to dissolve the companionship early.
  11.  There are also life companionships where it will be written on official record that the dissolvent of such companionship will be only through death of one of the parties. Such record will be signed by both parties.
  12.  Assassins, bearing the mark of the black dagger on their forehead, are permitted entrance into the city without interference.
  13.  Heralds and Ambassadors are immune from interference by any within the city any interference is punishable by public whippings.
  14.   Players, Poets, Musicians and singers may freely enter the city.
  15.  Thievery is illegal and harshly punished. An ear notching punishes the first offense. For a second offense, the punishment depends on the sex of the offender. Males are punished by the loss of their left hand. Females are punished by enslavement and sale in a city auction.
  16.  To claim land outside of the city, you must place a yellow stake of claim into the ground during the morning. You must then wait and protect that land until sunset. At that time then, the land becomes yours and you may lay your Homestone there. 
  17.   Robes of concealment are required for all free women in public, face stripping a free woman of the city is a serious crime to do so and be an outsider to the city is punishable by banishment and all properties being seized. Only a male citizen of the city may do such for his companion or kinfolk who are acting in a manner unbecoming of a free woman.
  18.  Freewoman caught couching another person’s slave or preparing to couch another person’s slave then becomes a slave herself.
  19.   Free women are given the option to wear veils within the city. During the summer moons they are permitted to wear saree's as long as they wear concealing undergarments. No naval can be seen. Anything there after she will be placed in a collar and used as a slave of the city.
  20.  Shaving or slicing off metal from any coin is considered to be theft and fraud and is punishable as such.
  21.   Women in the physician’s caste cannot practice medicine until they have first bore two children. Each Free woman of that caste shall wear two gold bracelets and after she has borne one child she may remove one and remove the second after bearing the second child.
  22.   Free women shall behave as such and shall respect any and all Free men. Failing to respect a free man gives the right to said man to punish the woman as he sees fit, if she threatens the man he will have the right to collar her for her insolence
  23.  The “rite of knives” may be used to settle disputes among free men; this practice is a duel of honor between two men to settle a dispute and can be to the death if the dueling parties feel it is justified. The terms of the duel must be set before combat commences and be agreed upon by both parties these terms must be witnessed by a neutral third party. {And Logged}
  24.  Weapons are not allowed within the village Temple.
  25.  The city holds a merchant’s foot and stone in the chamber of commerce with in the Administrators keep and is available for merchants to verify their own personal measuring devices. Any merchant found to be using a deceptive foot or stone will be punished by seizure of all property and impalement.
  26.  A free woman who cannot pay her debts will be enslaved. Under the redemption laws, a man can pay her debts and thus will now own her. If no one redeems her with in a three-hand period she will be sold at a public auction. The proceeds of her sale will be used to equitably satisfy the creditors.
  27.  A free woman that kneels before a man and addresses him as Master effects legal submission of herself to the man.
  28.   A free woman may do a form of limited self-contracting where she legally becomes a slave for a specific time period, commonly ranging from one night to a en’var. She cannot end this contract earlier than the specified time period. Once the contract takes effect, she becomes a slave with no legal powers at all.
  29.   No player, musician, poet or singer caste member may be enslaved within city limits


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Pertaining to Free Women

 

 

                 "Conduct indicating suitability for the collar," of course, can be interpreted in various ways, and more broadly and narrowly. It is almost always understood, of course, fortunately for women, and as I suppose the phrase itself makes clear, in the special legal sense of the phrase, as having to do with overt behavior rather than psychological predispositions and such...But even taken in the approprirate, legal behavioral sense the phrase is, as may well be imagined, subject to diverse interpretations...For example...a judge would be expected to decide whether or not the behaviors of the sort performed, constituted behavior for which the collar might be suitably imposed. p. 372 Renegades of GOR

 

 

  •        A Free Woman who addresses a male as "Master" may be enslaved. "If and when a free woman should utter this, in the Gorean culture, of course, this sort of thing is very significant. Indeed, in some cities such things as kneeling before a man, or addressing him as "Master" effects legal imbondment on the female, being interpreted as a gesture of submission." pg 139 Players of GOR

     

  •        A free woman who partakes of sensual dance in public will be enslaved. The principle he had alluded to pertains to conduct in a free woman which is taken as sufficient to warrant her reduction to slavery...Indulgence in sensual dance is another case. Sensuous dance is almost always performed by slaves on Gor. A free woman who performs such dancing publicly is almost begging for the collar. In some cities the sentence of bondage is mandatory for such a woman. pg 372 Renegades Of GOR

     

  •        A free woman who is guilty of theft will be reduced to slavery. The principle he had alluded to pertains to conduct in a free woman which is taken as sufficient to warrant her reduction to slavery. The most common application of this principle occurs in areas such as fraud or theft. pg 372 Renegades Of GOR

     

  •         A free woman who is guilty of vagrancy and indigence will be reduced to slavery. The principle he had alluded to pertains to conduct in a free woman which is taken as sufficient to warrant her reduction to slavery. The most common application of this principle occurs in areas such as fraud or theft. Other applications may occur, for example, in cases of indigence and vagrancy. pg 372 Renegades Of GOR

     

  •         Free women are not required by law to wear veils. Rather, it is customary. Free women of Port Cos will not be enslaved if they are in public without veils, though it may reflect badly upon their reputation. The veil, it might be noted, is not legally imperative for a free woman; it is rather a matter of modesty and custom. Some low-class, uncompanioned, free girls do not wear veils. Similarly certain bold free women neglect the veil. Neglect of the veil is not a crime in Gorean cities, though in some it is deemed a brazen and scandalous omission. Slave girls may or may not be veiled, this depending on the will of their master. Most slave girls are not permitted to veil themselves. Indeed, not only are they refused the dignity of the veil, but commonly they are placed in brief, exciting slave livery and may not even bind their hair. pg 106 Slave Girl of GOR and, certain bold free women neglect the veil. Neglect of the veil is not a crime in Gorean cities, though in some it is deemed a brazen and scandalous omission." pg 107 Slave Girl of GOR

     

  •         A free woman who appears naked in public may be enslaved. For example, they may not appear naked in the streets, as may slaves. Indeed, a free woman who appears in public in violation of these standards of decorum, for example, with her arms or legs too much bared, may be made a slave. pp. 367-368 Renegades of GOR

  •         These rules are relaxed for lower caste free women.'I wore but a single layer and my calves, ankles and feet were bared...Surely many low-caste girls go about with only as much, or even less,' she said. p. 368 Renegades of GOR. and "Consider," said Aemilianus, "the exciting costume in which the prisoner appears before us, the baring of so much of the arms, the baring of the calves, the ankles, the feet, the cling of it, indicating it conceals no undergarments but only female, how closely it resembles in many ways that of some simple, humble, impoverished, low-caste maid..." p. 377 Renegades of GOR.

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  •        Free women will not be collared for speaking their minds. "And, of course," he said (speaking to a slave being charged with impersonating a free woman) "there are several associated considerations, such as arrogant speech, speaking without permission, and failure to use the proper forms of address." p. 374 Renegades of GOR

  •       It stands to reason that if these are crimes for a slave impersonating a free woman, they are not therefore crimes for a free woman.

  •        Free women will not be collared for looking at a free man, or for speaking without permission. A free woman is not a slave and does not require permission to speak.

     

  •       Free women will not be collared for walking away from a free man. Again, a free woman is not a slave and does not require permission to come and go.

     

  •       Free women in Port Cos are free to walk about the city unescorted if their house permits it. There are no city ordnances governing this.

     

  •         IN NO CASE WILL ANY FREE WOMAN OF PORT COS BE ENSLAVED BY ANY CITIZEN OF PORT COS (SLAVERS INCLUDED) WITHOUT A TRIAL BEFORE THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR, OR LACKING HIS PRESENCE, THE HIGH COUNCIL OF THE CITY. IF SHE IS FOUND GUILTY, SHE WILL BE FACE STRIPPED, DISROBED AND COLLARED FOR HER OFFENCES WITH THE JUDGMENT, "I SENTENCE YOU TO SLAVERY" AND "LET HER GARMENTS BE REMOVED."