Talk: Laws and justice of the Seven Kingdoms
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Crimes and Punishments
- Wildlings are executed if caught south of the Wall.[1]
- Slavery is illegal. The punishment for enslavement is execution.[2]
- Poachers and thieves may be forced to row ships as a punishment for their crimes.[3]
- A man who steals from a sept might be judged to have stolen from the gods, and so receive a harsher punishment.[4]
- A prostitute accused of carrying a pox might be punished by having her private parts washed out with lye before being thrown into a dungeon.[4]
- Being caught abed with another man's wife can lead to being sent to the Wall.[5]
- If the queen of the Seven Kingdoms were to commit adultery, it would be considered high treason.[6]
- Some lords ban smallfolk from keeping bows as an attempt to keep them from poaching [7]
Historical Punishments
- In ancient days, wrongful deaths could be addressed by the paying of a blood price, and in the Age of Heroes a man's life might be reckoned at being worth no more than a sack of silver [8]
- Being caught smuggling by the Sea Watch about Dragonstone was death in the days of King Aerys.[9]
On extremely rare occasions, the lords of the kingdom may be gathered together to decide some great matter. The last time a Great Council was convened, it chose the next king of the Seven Kingdoms, overriding the proper lines of inheritance to give the crown to the youngest son of Maekar, Aegon V ahead of his elder brothers[10].
Lords in Westeros once had the right to the first night i.e. the custom of bedding newly-wed common women before their husbands. Queen Alysanne convinced King Jaehaerys I to abolish it [11][12] but it is still practiced illegally in some parts of the North[13].
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 1, Bran I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 3, Daenerys I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 12, Cersei III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Prologue.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 43, Cersei X.
- ↑ The Sworn Sword, p95
- ↑ The Sworn Sword, p104, 126
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 10, Davos II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 8, Tyrion II.
- ↑ The Sworn Sword, p94
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 43, Daenerys VII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.