Official Ruling: Citizenship Restriction for Prætor

[Malliki]

OFFICIAL RULING OF THE IMPERIAL JUDEX

The Imperial Charter, Article II, Section A states the following:

"All law set down by the Landsraad shall be recorded in the Lawbook."

The LawBook, IV, A, 1, a. states the following:

"The Landsraad must place all permanent laws of the Land of Shireroth into the Lawbook of Shireroth, which shall be maintained by the Prætor of Shireroth."

This implies that anything not recorded in the LawBook is not to be considered as law, or as a temporary law. In the interest of clarity, practicality and common sense, I rule that the Prætor is restricted to three citizenships, including his Shirerithian one, even without Imperial Decree 347.

Furthermore, if the Landsraad "clearly intended" to restrict the Prætor to two citizenships, they should have made sure that such a law was added to the LawBook.

This ruling may be appealed to the Kaiser within seven days.

[Erik Mortis]

Okey, I question your "the Kaiser can repeal this in 3 days" clause you keep using. Justify it... or explain it.. or something.

[Malliki]

I don't have to justify it, but I can explain it. The real clause, not the version you wrote which isn't a good description. I do not tell the Kaiser that he has so and so many days to overrule my decision, I tell people at large that they have so and so many days to appeal to the next Arbiter in the chain, AKA the Kaiser. It's both common courtesy to inform people of the ability to appeal, but I am also attempting to set a seven day precedent, since there is no law limiting the period for appeals. We could get an appeal six months after the fact and it would be technically legal.

[Erik Mortis]

I was tired and didn't type it right.

Fair enough.