[ANSTHRLD] "Letter of permission to Conflict"

[Tim McDaniel]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Ronald Blackman <eirik at hot.rr.com> wrote:
> A Letter of Permission to Conflict is given by someone who has a
> registered device and will allow another device to be only one CD
> from their device.

Letters of permission are covered in the College of Arms
Administrative Handbook at
<http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/admin.html>.

<http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/admin.html#III.C> describes two types
of letters of permission.  AH III.C.3 describes the specific case,
where it's one person to one person.  E.g., Jeaux Normal Ansteorran
owns "Argent, an example rampant sable", and he allows Joseph-Robert
Briggs (specific by name) to register "Argent, three examples rampant
sable".  This specific Permission to Conflict paragraph) says "not
identical", which is a more liberal permission than "one CD": there
are blazonable differences (e.g., head position) that make it not
identical but are not worth a CD.

AH III.C.4 covers Blanket Permission to Conflict, where Jeaux Bleaux
allows anyone to register a conflicting item.  The text says

     The owner may specify either that permission to conflict would be
     automatically granted to any non-identical submission (for name or
     armory) or that permission to conflict would be automatically
     granted to any armory submission that is at least one countable
     step (CD) away from the registered armory or to any name
     submission that has the addition or removal of a syllable or a
     spelling change that changes the pronunciation, such as would be
     required for the registration of a name similar to a name used by
     the submitter outside the Society.

It's easy to miss a crucial detail when writing a letter of
permission, so Appendix D is "Suggested Standard Form Letters",
which has all the details.  You should certainly use them rather than
try to dream up your own.

I know that Laurel will not register two identical items (except by
accident or for protected non-SCA armory), regardless of permission or
even if it's by the same owner.

Denyel Lincoln
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com