Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 18 | 57 | The View more quotes about cylinder">cylinder was white, a color Goreans often associate with impartiality. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 18 | 54 | "Where," I asked, "shall Pa-Kur take the daughter of the false Ubar to be executed?" The officer pointed to a distant cylinder. |
| 18 | 55 | "The Cylinder of Justice," he said. |
| 18 | 56 | "The execution will take place as soon as the girl can be presented". |
| 18 | 57 | The cylinder was white, a color Goreans often associate with impartiality. |
| 18 | 58 | More significantly, it indicated that the justice dispensed therein was the justice of Initiates. |
| 18 | 59 | There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the City, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what, for lack of a better word, might be called ecclesiastical courts. |
| 18 | 60 | The areas of jurisdiction of these two types of courts are not well defined; the Initiates claim ultimate jurisdiction in all matters, in virtue of their supposed relation to the Priest-Kings, but this claim is challenged by civil jurists. |
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"Where," I asked, "shall Pa-Kur take the daughter of the false Ubar to be executed?" The officer pointed to a distant cylinder.
"The Cylinder of Justice," he said.
"The execution will take place as soon as the girl can be presented".
The cylinder was white, a color Goreans often associate with impartiality.
More significantly, it indicated that the justice dispensed therein was the justice of Initiates.
There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the City, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what, for lack of a better word, might be called ecclesiastical courts.
The areas of jurisdiction of these two types of courts are not well defined; the Initiates claim ultimate jurisdiction in all matters, in virtue of their supposed relation to the Priest-Kings, but this claim is challenged by civil jurists.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)