Courts

 

 

Manorial Courts

This level of court presides over the people living in a single fief. They may only judge people of common blood. The judge at a manorial court is the fiefholder or his steward.

 

Civic Courts

This level of court presides over the legal matters of a single town or city. In larger settlements there may be several courts taking care of different kinds of cases. Civic courts may meet daily or weekly. They may only judge people of common blood.

 

Liege courts

Liege courts are convened by peers, and adjucate trials referred from manorial (and, sometimes, civic) courts in areas subordinated to the peer in question. They convene monthly, at best.

 

Coronal Courts

This level of court takes appeals from the liege and civic courts, cases to serious to be tried at the local courts, and cases against gentry. A coronal court may use any legal penalty against those tried before it, including the death penalty, outlawry, and stripping a knight of the gentry of his honour.

 

High Royal Courts

This level of court takes appeals from the coronal courts, and all cases against the peerage.