References to UO in "Pleas of the Crown" (1803)

[Mens Rea]

Every time I open an olde English law book I can't help but think about UO.

Let me quote from East 'Pleas of the Crown' (1803)

"In the first place it has been shewn that a man cannot be guilty of felony in taking his own goods, unless where having bailed them to another, he afterwards steal or rob him of them in order to charge him or the hundred. For else, if a man take another's trees and cut them into boards; or take the other's cloth and make it into a doublet and embroider it; or mingle the other's corn with his own; in all these cases the owner may retake his boards, cloth and the whole of the corn ... without being guilty of felony."

[Panthor the Hated]

Wow they predicted the corn return laws implemented by Lord British 200 years later!

[Mens Rea]

The housing system, including co-ownership and friendship, is also very similar to common law land ownership.

It's interesting but old Richy G seems to be quite clued up on the era he made the game.

I think UOSA should make a change from T2A accuracy to olde English law accuracy - including a potential punishment of a lifetime of servitude for robbery.

[SighelmofWyrmgard]

Britannia --and, for that matter, all of the "Ultima Universe"-- is, erm, fantasy, not history.

SS

[Mens Rea]

[Mens Rea]

Britannia --and, for that matter, all of the "Ultima Universe"-- is, erm, fantasy, not history.

SS

Fantasy indeed. Which is why, even in your fantasy land there are rules in the common law to keep your urges at bay:

East at 480:

Sodomy

"This offence, concerning which the least notice is the best, consists of a carnal knowledge committed against the order of nature by a man with man, or in the same unnatural manner with woman, or by man or woman with any manner of beast."

Note: punishable by death without benefit of clergy.

[Panthor the Hated]

good thing sodomy is still legal here

[Mens Rea]

Really? I thought that's why Hemperor plays no more?

[BlackFoot]

well you need a permit