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ISLE OF TELETUS LAWS
Section 6 – Slavery Law of the Isle of Teletus
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6.1 – Status and Nature of Slavery
6.1.1 The Owner holds sole property rights over the slave and may use, dispose of, or destroy the slave at will.
6.1.2 A slave owns nothing and holds no property.
6.1.3 A slave holds no right to Caste or Citizenship.
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6.2 – Authority, Punishment, and Capture
6.2.1 Any Free Person may punish a slave.
6.2.2 A Free Man may enslave a captured Free Woman not of his Home Stone, according to the rights of capture.
6.2.3 A slave shall not strike a Free Person. The penalty for doing so is prolonged torture followed by death.
6.2.4 Any Free Person may kill a disobedient slave. If the slave belongs to a private Owner or to the Kennels, the killer must compensate the Owner.
6.2.5 Failure to pay due compensation invokes the laws of debt. The Merchant Magistrate shall resolve any dispute over adequacy.
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6.3 – Restrictions and Prohibitions
6.3.1 Slaves may not enter the Temple of Initiates.
6.3.2 Slaves may not play Kaissa.
6.3.3 Female slaves may not touch weapons without explicit permission. Any slave who touches a Free Man’s weapon without leave shall be put to death.
6.3.4 A slave may not impersonate a Free Person.
6.3.5 Slaves may not instruct Free Persons. A Free Person may, however, observe a lesson taught by a slave to ensure propriety.
6.3.6 No person may knowingly sell a red-haired or auburn-haired girl whose hair has been artificially dyed. Doing so constitutes fraud.
6.3.7 Slaves may not lie. If a slave is caught in falsehood, the penalty may be death.
6.3.8 A slave who attempts escape shall be hamstrung upon the first offense. A second offense results in death.
6.3.9 Female slaves do not touch weapons without permission. If a slave is found touching a Free Man’s weapon without permission, she will be killed.
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6.4 – Examination, Ownership, and Registration
6.4.1 A Physician of the Isle shall examine all slaves annually. Ownership papers require a current medical record.
6.4.2 Slave Papers cannot be filed without a current, up-to-date medical examination on file from the city or another city not older than a year. Slave Registration Papers must be certified and sealed by a Scribe to be deemed legally binding and enforceable
6.4.3 All slaves must be registered. If an Owner fails to register a slave within 3 hands, the Kennels may seize the slave. If unclaimed thereafter, the Kennels gain ownership.
6.4.4 A Scribe of the Isle or a Kennel Scribe must certify and seal ownership papers for them to be binding.
6.4.5 A bill of sale is valid only when a Scribe of the Isle or a Kennel Scribe signs and seals it. to be deemed legally binding and enforceable."
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6.5 – Kennels and Abandonment
6.5.1 The Kennels shall claim any slave whose Owner abandons the slave for 3 hands.
6.5.2 If the Kennels find a slave without an escort or purpose, they may hold the slave for 3 hands . If unclaimed, ownership passes to the Kennels.
6.5.3 The Head Slaver may dispose of Kennel slaves by sale, rental, or auction.
6.5.4 The Head Slaver may impose restrictions upon Kennel slaves.
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6.6 – Tokens and Status of Bondage
6.6.1 All slaves must bear a visible token of bondage (collar, brand, or slave garments).
6.6.2 Merchants may not sell an unbranded slave.
6.6.3 Owners may impose sexual restrictions on their slaves. Belting is encouraged but not required. Free Persons who knowingly violate sexual restrictions shall pay a fine. Slaves who violate another’s restrictions shall be put to death.
6.6.4 Offenders must pay fines within one hand. Failure to pay invokes punishment as determined by the Magistrates.
6.6.5 Slaves may be rented publicly and privately for a period of time during monetary transition. Rental slaves cannot be removed from the city.
6.6.5 Opening a white silk slave without the permission of said slave's owner will result in a fine equal to, or greater than the slave's possible blood value at auction as determined by the owner, or the Merchant Magistrate."
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6.7 – Manumission and Freedom
6.7.1 Owners may free their slaves at any time.
6.7.2 A Scribe must certify, seal, and file records of manumission in the Hall of Records.
6.7.3 Freed women must carry valid manumission papers with them at all times and be prepared to produce them upon demand. A free woman suspected of being a slave who cannot produce said proof of manumission will be held in the city jail for a period of one hand or until the papers are provided. After this time, if proof is not given, the woman may be subject to legal repercussions, up to and including death or enslavement.
6.7.4 A newly freed slave must dress properly within one day and petition to join a Caste within one hand.
6.7.5 The freed person must deliver proof of manumission to the City Records Keeper within three days.
Add "Slaves may be rented publicly and privately for a period of time during monetary transition. Rental slaves cannot be removed from the city."
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6.8 – Special Provisions
6.8.1 In legal proceedings, Magistrates may compel a slave’s testimony under torture.
6.8.2 Poison slaves are illegal weapons.
6.8.2.a Authorities shall immediately destroy any uncaged poison slave and charge the Owner.
6.8.2.b Any Owner who possesses a poison slave without approval of the Chief Magistrate commits treason.
6.8.3 The only recognized slave-property challenge is Kajira Canjellne.
6.8.3.a Kajira Canjellne is not a duel unto death. One may invoke it only to recover a stolen slave, protect a slave in mortal peril, or reclaim a previously owned slave. To invoke it against one of the same Home Stone, or against an unskilled swordsman, is dishonorable.
6.8.3.b If the challenger does not belong to the Warrior Caste, the challenged Free may refuse the match.
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