Talk:Laws of Stormwind/@comment-7246169-20150330174210

Thanks to those involved in cleaning this page up a bit. It looks so much better than it used to. I had a couple thoughts regarding the section on the rights of the nobility.

1. (Baronet or Baronetess) These are hereditary (Baronet, at least. There is no such word as Baronetess) titles, but NOT peerages, and therefore styled "Sir/Lady X" where "x" represents the surname. Might want to mention whether or not these rights should extend to such titles as they are not considered peers and generally regarded as far below hereditary peers. In most systems throughout history, the ranks of hereditary peerage were: Duke, down to Baron. A Baronet had armorial bearings that may be passed on to their offsring and in some cases, a fair amount of land, but did not enjoy a seat in the house of lords, or the style "Lord"

If the person responsible for adding this title wanted some form of life peer added to the ranks, there should be a marked difference in the two. Life peers merely hold the style ("Lord/Lady X" where "X" generally represents the family name) for life, and a document that allows them to hold a seat in the house for life.

2. There is an old Scottish law called "Pit and gallows" which gave nobles the right to punish thieves on their own land. A woman could be thrown in a ditch (pit) and a man could be hung for theft on any noble's land. Since in near every feudal Monarchy, nobles had the right to punish peasants for crimes committed on their own lands, we might want to consider adding something similar to the rights of nobility in Stormwind.