ANST - Sumptuary laws (lots o' stuff)

[Deborah Sweet]

Sir Kief wrote:

>Excellent question! How about writing the Crown and the Kingdom 
>Seneschal and requesting that all of Kingdom Law be put into one 
>"book". 

>Of course, you need to know that the _Marshal's Handbook_ in it's 
>entirety is part of Kingdom Law... So, how do we fund the publication 
>and mailing of this tome? One of the reasons that KL is "scattered" 
>about in different publications is that much of the information is of 
>limited interest to the community at large. Hmmmm...why not have a list 
>published in the _Black Star_ and in the "general issue" of Kingdom Law 
>of all the different "locations" of the segments of KL... Then folk 
>that are interested in the different parts can order them from the 
>Kingdom Stock Clerk... This would allow the publication of the main 
>body of KL and the general mailing of same, and let everyone get the 
>specialized segments as their interests dictate.

     Do you mean purchase the various handbooks that include the bits of 
kingdom law or do you mean to pull the bits of KL out of the handbooks & 
sell them that way? (I certainly wouldn't necessarily be interested in 
the entire handbook of some office, just the bits of kingdom law.)

     Your point about the Marshal's Handbook being entirely a part of 
Kingdom Law is good & somebody else mentioned the Treasurer's Handbook 
as well. These two "sections" of Kingdom Law are sufficiently long 
enough, complex enough, & specialized enough that they deserve to stay 
separate publications. However, the sumptuary laws, as someone else 
mentioned, are one to two pages long. There is no logical reason to 
*not* include them in the main body of Kingdom law. IMHO, if the kingdom 
laws in the various handbooks are less than (say 5-10) pages long each, 
they should be included in the main body of kingdom law. That's where 
people are going to go first to find out the answers to their questions! 
(And there's nothing to *prevent* the various handbooks from including a 
*copy* of the relevant kingdom laws within them.)

Estrill

     


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