As of 24 JAN 2019
Revised forms for the Office of the Magistrates
1. Citizen's Complaint [Name Date]
2. Investigation Record [Name Date]
3. Witness Statement [Name Date]
4. Summons [Name Date]
5. Record Request [Name Date]
6. Warrant for Arrest [Name Date]
7. Judical Case Record # # # #
8. Order of Punishment [Name Date]
Isle of Svago
Order of Punishment
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[Display name here] has hereby been found guilty of [charges] by judicial process. As such, the sentence of [Insert Here] has been passed, according to the laws of Svago.
Punishment is to be [insert term or conditions here, if not permanent], and is effective immediately. Failure to comply with this order may result in further penalties.
Magistrate or Praetor:
[Display name]
[Seal]
Date
[Gorean and Earth date]
Isle of Svago
Judicial Case Record #### ( Year Your Intials Case that year - example 2019 WC 05)
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Date of opening :
Accused:
[Display name and SL name here]
Accuser:
[Display name and SL name here if applicable]
Summary of Complaint:
[Write out a summary]
Investigation Record:
[Insert Here if applicable]
Legal Charges:
[Cite the section of Svago Law]
Magistrate or Praetor for Case:
[Display name and SL name here]
[Seal]
Supporting Documents:
Finding or Judgment:
Punishment:
[IF applicable/ Order of Punishment]
Date of closure:
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Filed By:
High Magistrate
[Signature and Seal]
Isle of Svago
Warrant for Arrest
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[Name and caste if known] is hereby ordered to be arrested, and detained through any means necessary by order of the Office of the Magistrates until such time as the Magistrate/Praetor undersigned or the High Magistrate orders their release.
Date of Warrant:
Charged with:
(cite Svago law)
Ordered by:
[name]
[title]
[seal]
Isle of Svago
Record Request
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Requested are any records pertaining to [Accused] for the period of [start date] to [end date].
By authority of the Office of Magistrates of Svago
Requesting Magistrate/Advocate/Clerk of Court:
[Display and SL names]
[Seal]
Date of Request:
Isle of Svago
Summons
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Date:
Citizen or Resident being summoned:
[Display name and SL name here]
Summary of Reason for Summons:
[Write out a Summary and cite any law broken]
Response to summons in person or writing by DD MMM YYYY
You may appear in person on:
[ List dates and SLT time you will be in Svago and open for rp]
Written response may be placed in the Magistrates mail box at the administration building.
Magistrate Issuing Summons:
Name
Seal
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Response to Summons
Date
Statement:
[Write out a summary]
Respondent
Name
Seal
Isle of Svago
Witness Statement
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Witness:
[Display name and SL name here]
Statement:
[Write out a summary]
Transcript of Interview:
[insert rp copy, if available]
Magistrate, Praetor, or Advocate securing testimony:
[Display name and SL name here]
[Seal]
Date:
[Gorean and/or Earth date here]
Isle of Svago
Record of Investigation
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Accused:
[Display name and SL name here]
Summary of Investigation:
Findings:
Supporting Documents:
[Citizens Complaint, Warriors Record/Report, Witness Statements, Record Requests/ documents, or anything else here as appropriate]
Magistrate/Praetor/Advocate/Warrior:
[Display name and SL name here]
[Seal]
Date:
Isle of Svago
Record of Citizen's Inquiry ####
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Citizen Who Brings The Complaint:
[Display name and SL name here]
Summary of Complaint:
[Write out a Summary]
Transcript of Interview:
[insert record with transcript here]
Investigation Warranted: If yes give reason(s) why:
[yes/no]
Assigned to Investigation:
[Display name and SL name here]
Magistrate/Praetor in charge
[Display name and SL name here]
Date:
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Document or copy of said document shall be on file in the legal offices.
Filed by:
[Name]
[Seal]
Date:
Shields on Gor
Round shield
Concentric overlapping layers of hardened leather
Riveted together & bound with brass hoops
Fitted with double sling for carrying on left arm
Normally painted boldly and has city insignia
The round shield, concentric overlapping layers of hardened leather riveted together and bound with hoops of brass, fitted with the double sling for carrying on the left arm, was similarly unmarked. Normally the Gorean shield is painted boldly and has infixed in it some device for identifying the bearer's city. If this shield were intended for me, and I had little doubt it was, it should have carried the sign of Ko-ro-ba, my city.
Outlaw
I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pets of iron and bound with hoops of brass;
Raiders
Used to deflect spears
I also learned the use of the shield, primarily to meet the cast spear obliquely so that it would deflect harmlessly. Towards the end of my training I always fought with shield and helmet.
Tarnsman
Normally carried on left arm
"Lines!" I heard. "Lines!"
"Let him go," said a man, wearily.
"Shields right!" I heard. Normally the shield, of course, is carried on the left arm, most warriors being right handed. The shields were now to be shifted to the right arm, for that was the direction from which had come the arrow.
Vagabonds
The fatigue of bearing a shield in battle See also Warrior Training
In between the assaults we gasped for breath and crouched behind our shields, resting their rims on the walkway. To lift such a device for Ehn at a time, and receive blow after blow upon it, bearing up under them, in time makes the arm desperately tired and sore. It is little wonder warriors often train with weighted shields. In the early Ahn of battle a common cause of causalities, particularly with young warriors, is recklessness, and the failure to use the shield properly to protect oneself. In the late Ahn of a battle, however, an even more common cause of causalities, interestingly enough, is the simple inability to lift, control and maneuver the shield. There is a great temptation to lower it, to ease the pain of the screaming muscles. This compounds, of course, with arm weariness, the result of wielding the sword, and the slowing of reflexes and reaction time, resulting from general fatigue.
Renegades
Weight of shield carried for a long time
Eagerly the men of Ar then pressed through the break in the rence.
Those behind, in their numbers, for pasangs back, may have thought the enemy himself had been sighted.
By late afternoon, however, nothing more had been seen.
"I am hungry," said a man.
The fin of a marsh shark cut the water nearby. Men thrust it away with the butts of their spears.
A wading fellow discarded his shield. He could perhaps no longer bear its weight. He held to his spear, his eyes closed, using it like a pole, to keep his balance in the soft bottom.
Vagabonds
Archer shields (wicker shields of naval bowmen)
I saw then that their action had been diversionary, to occupy us while other longboats, fixed with wicker shields, of the sort used for naval bowmen, lay along the chain. Behind those shields, like shapes and shadows, distinguishable behind the wicker, men tore with saws at the chain.
Guardsmen
Arrows lanced into the heavy wicker but, though several pierced it by a foot, they did little damage. The shafts were caught in the heavy wicker. Too, now, from the pirates' galleys, protecting their longboats, there sped a fierce counterfire. The wicker shields of our own archers were now bristling with feathers and wood.
Guardsmen
Archer shields, of heavy wicker, floated in the water, and ruptured posts and strakes, and parts of oars.
Guardsmen
Buckler
There I saw the shield which Tela had been polishing, a small, round shield, more of a buckler, really, than a shield. It was ornamented with bosses, and engraved with mythological scenes, the conquest, and the rape and enslavement of Amazons by satyrs.
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The shield, so small, so beautiful, was perhaps more for display, I think, than an implement of war.
Dancer
Rencer shields
Small shields of rence wicker
Some of the men of the rencers, with their small shields of rence wicker, fought, but their marsh spears were not match for the steel swords and war spears of Gor. When they offered resistance they were cut down. Most, panic-stricken, knowing themselves no match for trained warriors, fled like animals, crying out in fear before the hunters of Port Kar.
Raiders
Alar Shields
Besides the ax Alars are fond of the Alar sword, a long, heavy, double-edged weapon. Their shields tend to be oval, like those of the Turians.
Mercenaries
