Free Persons

Free Companionship

A person may have only one Free Companion at a time.
A Free Companionship lasts for a Gorean year (3RL months). If it is not renewed by the twentieth Ahn of the anniversary date, it automatically dissolves.
Slavery or the death of one of the parties will serve to dissolve the Companionship earlier than the one-year anniversary.
A contract is not needed for Free Companionship. Most of Gor is illiterate and contracts were used more when the parties involved had assets or it was a politically motivated companionship. All that matters is the sharing of the wine.
A man who forces sex upon his free companion cannot legally be charged with rape of a Free Woman.

Free Men

Respect to the status of a Free Woman should be given at all times. No man who shares a Home Stone with a woman may legally, nor forcibly, enslave her.
- No man who shares a Home Stone may threaten a woman with enslavement simply for insulting him or being rude. Legal enslavement must be effectuated by the proper authorities of Treve. You may not act on your own to enslave a free woman for a violation of any law of Treve. Free women who may have violated the law must be brought before the magistrate for a legal determination as to whether there has been a violation sufficient to warrant a reduction to slavery.
Free men may use any unbelted kajira without threat of legal consequence. The owner may ask for coin regarding her use, but there is no guarantee of it being paid.
The City and Village do not hold the power, nor authority, over the private property of the Free. Therefore, no man must share his property.
If you restrict your slave sexually, you must have her in an iron belt or else she may be taken and used by another without legal consequence. The belt enforces the restriction.
There is no law stating a man cannot sexually use a slave in public.
- Public is not defined as a private business; such as the common area of an inn. That decision is left to the owner of the business
All men are able to capture and collar unescorted or unowned slaves within Minus, as long as said slave is not the property of a fellow citizen or an accepted visitor within Treve and Minus.
- Once captured, the man is now the recognized owner of the slave.
- There is no law stating the man must surrender the capture to the city or a slaver. According to Merchant Law, an unclaimed slave, one legally subject to claimancy, may be claimed, and then is the property of the claimant. At this point, the man may keep the slave or sell her anyway he sees fit.
- There is also the legal standing of capture rights which allows a man to retain his claim on the slave.

Free Women

Free Women are required to wear robes of concealment, including veils, within the city walls of Treve. Most high caste women, by custom, will be seen in (a minimum of) street veils.
If she should be in public without such a garment, a man may take her in hand to a male family member, a guard, or magistrate to be forcibly veiled.
There is no couching law within Treve or Minus.
It is strongly recommended that all Free Women who do not have immediate male family members residing in Treve, have a Protector that will serve as their champion in the event of a challenge to their status as a Free Woman. The Free Companion of a Free Woman is considered her Protector under the law.
If a Man, other than a Protector, Free Companion, or Family Member, saves the life of a Free Woman, outside of his duties to the Home Stone, He has the right to enslave her or receive compensation in the amount of her fair market value as a slave. If there is a challenge, the Magistrate will rule on the validity of such an act.
A Free Man with Standing may challenge the enslavement of a Free Woman. Standing is defined as: the Protector, Free Companion, or Male Family member of the Free Woman in question. Such challenges are to be brought before the High Magistrate, or may be decided by a challenge to sparring. Sparring need not be accepted by the Collaring Free Man, and be brought back before the High Magistrate. If the challenge is accepted, the commander of the scarlet caste will determine the victor. Such challenge and sparring will typically not be a fight to the death. Such challenge will only result in death if the contestants declare a match to the death in advance of conflict.
A free woman may submit of her own free will to any man of her choosing. If the man is a Warrior and refuses, he may slay her. If he accepts, he is free to do with her as he pleases. If the man is not a Warrior and refused, the woman may be enslaved by any man witness to the act and may do with her as he pleases.
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 one year. 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.
Any Free Woman who is held on suspicion of slave like behavior will be treated as a Free woman with the respect of her community until judgment is rendered. She may be confined to her home or a cell. She will not be stripped in any way or brought to a Slave House. Acts that fall under 'suitability for a collar' include repeated acts of violating the codes of decorum:
- Showing true yearning desires of lust and submissive behavior that is openly displayed by a collared slave girl deserves to be one.
- Putting slave beads on before their mirrors, in secret, as though they might be slaves. a woman who is discovered doing such a thing may be remanded to magistrates for impressment into bondage.
- Attempting to spy on masters and slaves
- Disguising oneself as a slave, garbing oneself as a slave, even in the supposed secrecy of one's own compartments,
- Lingering about slave shelves and markets,
- Exhibiting an interest in, or fascination with, bondage
- Appearing naked, of her own free will, in public. Being stripped by a man as a punishment would not constitute free will.
- Fraud, Theft, indigency and vagrancy.
- Indulgence in sensual dance
Free Women are only permitted to carry a dagger or poison pins for self-defense. The dagger must remain concealed unless in use for a legitimate case of self-defense. No other weapons are permitted in Treve.