Every political bloc in Cross runs its own legal model, reflecting the shape of local power. Three radically different systems share one continent, and a crime that carries a fine in one carries a pyre in another.
I. The Clerical Order — canon law, entirely
Founding principle: every crime is, in the last instance, an offence against God. Therefore judgement is the prerogative of the Church. The civil state is the Church's executing arm and holds no jurisdiction of its own.
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