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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	79	I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its supreme civil official, or, for that matter, that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market.
8	12	In the streets there is civil war, fighting between the factions that would master Ar.
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...
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.
2	131	"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
8	14	The city is under martial law".
14	34	Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ...

Book 2. (10 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
24	173	If she were killed the hopes of the rebels might well be blasted, and the city plunged interminably into civil strife.
26	15	Her ruler—the gracious and beautiful Lara—is surely one of the wisest and most just of rulers on this barbaric world, and hers has been the torturous task of reuniting a city disrupted by civil strife, of making peace among factions and dealing fairly with all.
1	2	He was an instructor in English history and I, intending to work for some three years to save money toward law school, had accepted an appointment as an instructor in physical education, a field which, to my annoyance, Cabot never convinced himself belonged in the curriculum of an educ...
1	35	By that time I had long ago saved the money I needed for law school and had not taught for three years.
1	36	Indeed, I was then completing my studies at the school of law associated with one of New York's best-known private universities.
1	188	Later, following another examination, I was admitted to the bar in New York State, and I entered one of the immense law offices in the city, hoping to obtain eventually enough experience and capital to open a small practice of my own.
11	54	"Does the law of Tharna not give it the right to speak, Dorna the Proud, Second in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix, whose voice, too, was imperious and cold, yet pleased me more than the tones of she who wore the silver mask.
11	55	"Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud.
21	269	On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names.
26	32	"And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...

Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	54	The fairs, incidentally, are governed by Merchant law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged.
1	56	Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.
1	63	Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or High Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amused.
17	152	"Of course," said Sarm, "he broke the law of Priest-Kings".
17	153	"What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
25	18	I smiled to myself, for I could always tell her, and truthfully, that having saved her life she was now mine by Gorean law, so brief had been her freedom, and that it was up to me to determine the extent and nature of her clothing, and, indeed, whether or not she would be allowed cloth...
25	48	It was the law of Priest-Kings.
35	100	"If you should regain your power," I asked, "what do you propose to do with it? Will you still set forth the law in certain matters for men?" "Undoubtedly," said Misk.

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	18	There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and enforcing a body of Merchan...
9	479	It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative—or nearest relative if no adult male...
11	52	"How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
11	65	A slave, not being a person in the eyes of Gorean law, cannot possess a name in his own right, any more than an animal.
11	66	Indeed, in the eyes of Gorean law, unfortunately, slaves are animals, utterly and unqualifiedly at the disposition of their masters, to do with as he pleases.

Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	131	He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following th...
6	101	I resolved that most of my problems in this matter might be solved if I simply refused to release Elizabeth until she had given her word, which she takes quite seriously, to be at least civil.
12	81	Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the court...
2	197	"There seems little law now," said Portus.
11	325	The male of Earth is conditioned to be more timid, vacillating and repressed than the males of Gor; to be subject, to achieve social controls, to guilts and anxieties that would be as incomprehensible to the Gorean male as a guilt over having spoken to one's father-in-law's sister woul...
15	403	Gorean law, however, does not so regard them.
16	211	If a substantial proportion of races are not won in the first two seasons the law of the Stadium of Tarns discontinues its recognition of that faction.
17	160	Once in a paga tavern I heard a man, whom I recognized to be one of the guards from the iron pens, though now in the tunic of a Leather Worker, declaring that the city needed for its Administrator not a Builder but a Warrior, that law would again prevail.
17	206	Shortly thereafter Maximus Hegesius Quintilius was found dead, poisoned by the bite of a girl in his Pleasure Gardens, who, before she could be brought before the Scribes of the law, was strangled by enraged Taurentians, to whom she had been turned over; it was well known that the Taur...
18	170	Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
24	450	"Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped.
24	456	"As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar".
24	472	"If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.

Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	26	The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
15	210	In Gorean law a slave is an animal; before the law he has no rights; he is dependent on his master not only for his name but for his very life; he may be disposed of by the master at any time and in any way the master pleases.
11	360	"It will be civil war!" cried Eteocles.
11	358	"Be it known to you, Ubars," said he, "that Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, now proposes to the council that it take into its own hands the full and sole governance of the city of Port Kar, with full powers, whether of policy and decree, of enforcement, of taxation and law, or other, ...
15	121	Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
15	123	For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal.

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	379	She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...
12	440	The stockades are governed under Merchant law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
14	420	Perhaps one of the things that free women most envy in slaves is that they are not only permitted to reveal their beauty but that they must, even in the light of law, do so.
14	467	Gorean law is on his side, not hers.
14	468	Indeed, as an animal, she has no standing whatsoever before the law.
16	287	On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law.
18	38	By Gorean law the companionship, to be binding, must, together, be annually renewed, pledged afresh with the wines of love.

Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	954	It carried no dignity nor civil significance.
1	97	It was true that the Companionship, not renewed, had been dissolved in the eyes of Gorean law.
1	321	The Gorean slave, in the eyes of Gorean law, is an animal, with no legal title to a name.
3	41	The Merchants, who control Lydius, under Merchant law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed.
9	163	In law, and in the eyes of Goreans, Talena was now without family.
11	60	In the eyes of Goreans, and Gorean law, the slave is an animal.

Book 9. (11 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	88	There is often a tension between them and the civil authorities, for each regards themselves as supreme in matters of policy and law for their districts.
2	189	They were young male slaves, purchased by Initiates, castrated by civil authorities and, in the monasteries, trained in song.
2	316	It was first used at roadside shrines, to permit civil authorities to enter and slay fugitives who had taken sanctuary at the altars.
17	146	Kurii, in their past, at least, were apparently torn by internecine strife, disrupted by "racial" and "civil" wars among themselves.
1	259	At that point, in Gorean law, the companionship had been dissolved.
6	393	Most lived in ships, the steel wolves of space, their instincts bridled, to some extent, by Ship Loyalty, Ship law.
6	433	"It was set so high," said he, "out of the reach of custom and law, against the protests of the rune-priests and his own men, that none, in his belief, could pay it".
10	73	Blows are not to be struck at the Thing, but not even the law of the Thing, with all its might, would have the temerity to advise the man of Torvaldsland to arrive or move about unarmed.
10	89	In the crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages t...
10	155	A man, incredibly enough, may be challenged by such a fellow for his farm, or his companion, or daughter; if the challenge is not accepted, the stake is forfeit; if the challenge is accepted, of course, he who is challenged risks his life among the hazel wands; he may be slain; then, too, of course,...
12	18	About them, some on the dais, and some below it, stood his high officers, and his men of law, his counselors, his captains, and the chief men from his scattered farms and holdings; too, much in evidence, were more than four hundred of his men-at-arms.

Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	786	Had they known the weakness of the Sardar, and the time required to restore the power source, regenerating itself now at inexorable concentration rates determined by natural law, they would have surely launched their fleets.
5	762	The collar, by Gorean law, canceled the past.
9	86	"More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
10	12	The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
12	168	Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backe...
12	300	"It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".
13	76	He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
17	34	His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law.
17	94	One must speak carefully whose words become law.
24	806	"Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said.
26	1208	Further, Gor was the true prize of the planets rotating about the sun, not the Earth, for, in the name of rights and liberty, and business, the fools of Earth, confused by the rhetoric of law and morality, shielding short-sighted greed and madness, had stood aside, permitting the poiso...

Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
26	202	"You understand further, of course," said he, "that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement.
7	34	He later retook the throne of Ar, following upon the forcible, civil overthrew of Cernus of Ar, declared a false Ubar.
3	481	The brand has on Gor legal, institutional status; that which it marks it makes an object; its victim has no rights, or appeal, within the law.
3	531	That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
5	142	The Companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria.
5	198	Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law.
6	55	I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel...
7	227	The slave is not a person before Gorean law but a rightless animal.
9	934	If it were true, in Gorean law, it could be no slander.
9	959	If this were true, it was, in Gorean law, no slander.
22	358	The slave is seen as a lovely property which may be purchased or stolen, owned and mastered; she has no standing in the eyes of the law; she is rightless and vulnerable; she belongs to the master and must obey and serve him; she exists to please; that is her purpose; she must hope to w...
22	451	This not only has its profound erotic effect on the slave and others, but it usefully, from the point of view of merchant law, identifies her as a slave.
24	97	"And it is a civic matter, and you have been authorized to apprehend her and bring her before a slave praetor?" Slaves, as animals, lack standing before the law.

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	322	You surely cannot expect sleen to come over to be harpooned if you are not even going to be civil to them".
3	75	It is here that Merchant law is drafted and stabilized.
15	486	Gorean law, of course, is complex and latitudinous on these matters.

Book 13. (9 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
48	255	Technically, according to Merchant law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl.
4	128	Also, of course, one standing before the desk must look up to see the praetor, which, psychologically, tends to induce a feeling of fear for the power of the law.
4	192	Then I was naked! Find her, if you wish to be busy with matters of the law! I was the victim of theft! It was stolen from me, my garment! You should be hunting her, the thief, not holding me here.
18	44	Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
27	154	Too, it is in accord with Merchant law.
32	337	"Also," I said, "if you are interested in these matters, you are not simply an animal in the literal sense, in the biological sense of 'animal', but in the sense that persons, individuals with rights before the law, are distinguished from animals".
32	341	In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal.
34	259	"Technically," I said, "in the eyes of Gorean law you are not an object but an animal".
51	107	The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexu...

Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	75	You are not yet a legal slave, a slave under law.
2	79	You will eventually find that you are, fully and legally, under law, a slave, totally a slave, and only a slave".
12	32	Is it truly easier, I wonder, to adopt columns and arches, philosophy and poetry, mathematics and medicine, and law, than a rational mode of dress.
12	373	I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games.
24	82	These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant law, for the marking of Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site.
27	114	It has proven to be an especially viable social institution, contributing to the stability and practicality of society, and it is honored in mores and sanctioned in law.
27	296	"There is a breakdown of law and order".
27	372	The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant law.
34	157	Her position is sanctioned in law.

Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	324	"What are you telling me," she asked, "that I keep a civil tongue in my head?" "It would not hurt," I told her.
21	297	It is a complex, vital, bright, colorful, deeply sensuous civilization; it is a harsh, gorgeous world in which the slave girl has a special role and place; her condition is unquestioned and categorical; it is supported by history, by custom and law; there is absolutely no...
24	392	The fullest slave, of course, is she who is a natural slave, and then, beyond this, truly wears the collar, that slave who is a slave by nature and whose slavery, released, is then confirmed and fixed upon her openly, publicly, by all the sanctions of custom and law, for all the world ...
24	400	Beyond this, of course, we knew we were, categorically and absolutely, legal slaves, lovely properties which might be bartered and sold, and who might figure in transactions which would be upheld in any court of law.
26	101	In his treatment of her he is untrammeled by either conscience or law, and this she knows, and loves, and, accordingly, hastens to obey and be pleasing.

Book 16. (9 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	1887	The bondage relationship explicitly, in civil law, is perhaps best understood as the acknowledgment of nature's work and its elaboration and enhancement within a complex civilized framework.
20	605	Her discomfiture, in any event, footwear discarded, robes lifted, should she brazenly dare such boldness, flouting cultural decrees, as you might suppose, is often welcomed even by her defenders, though, one supposes, they will be civil enough to conceal their amusement and interest.
20	1426	Too, it is not surprising that a guardsman may be in the vicinity, for he may have followed her, noting, under the stolen robes and veils, the body movements, the hesitant, uncertain steps, the tormented breathing, perhaps even the confused, trembling responses to civil inquiries, of a...
8	315	But the former, the slave girl, is owned with all the power and authority of law.
12	161	This was in full accord with Gorean law.
17	793	"It is against the law," she said.
20	1642	If castration makes them happy, who could be so heartless as to deny them this gratification? But to apply the knife, through discourse, and teaching, and law, to the innocent and unwilling is indeed offensive.
20	1684	She was shielded by law.
21	63	"On this world, the law even, as I am a slave, in all its force, puts me in your total power".

Book 17. (18 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	107	They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of Priest-Kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port.
13	671	"Merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".
19	109	"Yes," said Grunt, "when last I was in the land of the Kaiila, I met him in general council, with Black Clouds, Mahpiyasapa, civil chief of the Isbu".
19	422	"It was Hci, with his fellows of the Sleen Soldiers, of the Isbu, the son of Mahpiyasapa, civil chieftain of the Isbu, who did it," said Cuwignaka.
19	579	"The red-haired girl," said Grunt, looking after the warriors, "was for Mahpiyasapa, civil chief of the Isbu.
1	1286	"Due process of law, as you may see," said Kog, "was strictly observed".
1	1302	"All law exists to serve the interests of the dominant powers," said Kog.
1	1305	law which is not a weapon and a wall is madness".
2	357	It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers.
10	61	A law, imposed on white men entering their lands by red savages, had been violated.
13	669	"And such things, like the brand, are recommended by Merchant law".
13	1188	She is now, commonly, a collared, embonded beauty, properly marked as merchandise, effectively displayed and marketed, and owned in the full right of law".
17	446	Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of huma...
18	174	"Surely we have broken no law," I said.
18	176	"I do not think they need more law than that".
18	181	"Surely there is no law to the effect that you should not be freed," I said.
18	182	"There is no law specifically to that effect," he said, "but I would not count on their being much pleased about it".
18	186	"If there were such a law," asked the youth, "would you have broken it?" "Yes," I said.

Book 18. (30 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	378	I had brought Oiputake's information to the attention of one even so great as to be a civil chieftain of the Kaiila, to Watonka, the civil chieftain of the Isanna.
1	333	In another way, Grunt's familiarity to the Kaiila, for he had visited them last year, and was close to Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds, the civil chieftain of the Isbu, and his knowledge of their language, which closely resembles Dust Leg, garnered him a similar protection.
1	387	This may have stung Hci even more as he was the son of Mahpiyasapa, the civil chief of the Isbu.
1	395	Mahpiyasapa, incidentally, as I have mentioned, was the civil chief of the Isbu.
1	397	The primary types of chief are the war chief, the medicine chief and the civil chief.
1	467	He was even the son of Mahpiyasapa, the civil chief of the Isbu.
2	225	Three or four abreast, in long lines, led by their civil chief, Watonka, One-Who-Is-Rich, and subchiefs and high warriors, the Isanna entered the camp of the Isbu.
2	300	Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds, civil chief of the Isbu, greeted Watonka, One-Who-Is-Rich, on foot, welcoming him officially to the Isbu camp.
3	51	"The civil chiefs, in deferring to him, are not really relinquishing their power".
3	55	"But a war chief cannot be a civil chief," I said.
3	59	"One may, of course, at different times, be a war chief and a civil chief," said Cuwignaka.
4	136	One robe had even been donated by Mahpiyasapa, the civil chief of the Isbu.
8	21	We spoke within Grunt's lodge, one put at his disposal by his friend, Mahpiyasapa, civil chief of the Isbu Kaiila.
13	32	Even now civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives reside in his lodge".
16	267	Even now civil chiefs of the Yellow Knives are in the camp".
16	268	"They are not civil chiefs," she said.
16	274	They are not civil chieftains".
16	278	"They are not civil chieftains?" I asked.
16	279	"I saw the civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives at a council," she said.
16	304	"In this council," she said, "I saw the civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives.
16	309	"They are civil chieftains," I said.
18	269	Expected to attend such a council, of course, on the part of the Kaiila, were not only the civil chieftains of the various bands of the Kaiila but their high men, as well, the councils of the various bands, and trusted warriors, and men of probity and wisdom.
18	336	"I think they are not civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives," I said.
18	342	"He thinks our guests are not civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives, soon to be our friends, but war chiefs".
18	360	The man must indeed by a civil chieftain.
19	48	On the basis of her experience with the Yellow Knives she had told me that the three Yellow Knives in the camp are not civil chieftains, as is claimed, but war chiefs".
19	65	One of the Yellow Knives, one of the civil chieftains, intervened.
19	69	"He is obviously a civil chieftain," said Cuwignaka.
19	187	"How could one be more important among my people than to be the civil chieftain of a rich band?" asked Cuwignaka.
20	13	"The Yellow Knives with Watonka are not civil chiefs," said Cuwignaka.

Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	337	"It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".
3	338	"Merchant law?" I asked.
3	460	It thus becomes a question as to which among these animals own and which are owned, which, so to speak, count as persons, or have standing, before the law, and which do not, which are, so to speak, the citizens or persons, and which are the animals".
6	613	This might be regarded as the civilized expression of the biological relationship, a recognition of that relationship, and perhaps an enhancement, refinement and celebration of it, and, within the context of custom and law, of course, a clarification and consolidation of ...
14	45	But I was a free woman and would be subjected only to the cold and inhuman mercies of the law.
23	345	It was a strong recommendation of Merchant law that slaves be marked.
28	38	In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.

Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	485	The law is clear on this.
1	1099	This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
2	1662	Similarly you do not have her socio-natural vulnerability, that of the legal slave, helplessly so, in a society in which the institution of slavery is accepted, ingredient, pervasive, and honored, an unshakable matter, for thousands of years, of policy, tradition, and law".
7	269	There was no law against two traveling it.
8	272	"Show yourself," he cried, "as befits your office, that of those who courageously do war with brigands, that of those who do nobly defend and support the law, or as plain honest men, if that you be, that I may ally myself with you, that we may then offer to one another, no, then pledge...
9	413	Similarly, as I am sure you will recognize, at least upon reflection, you now have no standing whatsoever before the law.
16	336	"I shall have you taken before the law for slander!" "Do you wish to have it done for you?" inquired Chino, meaningfully.
16	443	"I shall have the law on you for this!" cried Rowena.
16	444	"Slaves have no standing before the law," said Chino.
18	297	"Martial law exists," said Belnar.

Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
24	476	You have now discovered your antecedents and connections, so to speak, and your exact place, or, perhaps better put, your exact lack of a place, in civil and social relationships".
14	55	"The city is under martial law," I said.
18	260	"Yet, there are some I have heard of," I said, "who might deny a natural slave her bondage, even by law, no matter what might be the mental, emotional, and physical damage of this".
19	195	He may even have been a scribe of the law.
21	162	"I am not a scribe of the law," he said.
22	84	"But it is also against the law".
25	352	One of the glories of the Gorean culture is that it has a body of law, sanctioned by tradition and mercilessly enforced, pertaining, without evasion or subterfuge, to this relationship.
25	1419	In Gorean thought, and, indeed, Gorean law is explicit on this, what is owned is the whole slave.
25	2300	"They will attempt to use law," she said, "using men against men, using them as their dupes and tools, until the last man can be destroyed".
25	2307	Any such law is automatically null and void.

Book 22. (16 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	388	"Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
5	44	When she had been used before my kennel she had been under "gag law," as is common when the guards use a girl, forbidden speech, save for moans and whimpers.
6	327	How fearful it would be, I thought, if such a female, or such females, in all their hatred and frustration, should manage by lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, manipulation, distortion, chicanery and law, swiftly or gradually, perhaps almost unnoticeably, to bring about the ruination...
6	596	I had noted, with interest, that although they were from different worlds, they, in the throes of their intimate employments, at first submitting to and enduring, then accepting, then reveling in, and, at last, kneeling and licking, mutely begging and pleading for their ravishments, in their whimper...
6	627	I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law.
6	634	If I were to flee the thief, however, after he has consolidated his hold on me, for example, kept me for even a night, I could, actually in Gorean law, be counted as a runaway slave, from him, even though he did not technically own me yet, and punished accordingly.
10	493	Even Gorean law makes it clear that it is the entire slave who is owned, not merely a part of her.
11	214	It would soon be replaced, we may suppose, with a new and more appropriate status, that of being a slave legally, a status fixed on her then with all the clarity and obduracy of Gorean law, and fixed on her for all the world to see, fixed on her as plainly as the collar on her neck and...
13	796	Of course, I would call men "Master"! They were my masters, and not only in the order of nature, but here, too, in the order of law.
17	104	The public buildings, the law court and the "house of the Administrator," the locus of public offices, were similarly structured and adorned.
24	19	His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
28	101	This point in Gorean law is apparently motivated by the consideration that a slave always have some master.
29	185	Too, anyone whose citizenship, for whatever reason, is rescinded or revoked, with due process of law, is no longer entitled to the protections and rights of that polity's Home Stone.
29	1574	He held a steel sword, where such things made law.
34	175	It is as though all the forces of communication, education and law had gone insane, with no better objective than to bring the sexes to ruin, destroy the human gene pool and doom the species".
34	632	"I am yours in the sight of law, yours, owned, in fullest legality, and doubtless you are well aware, as well, that I am helpless in your arms, and writhe helplessly there, and hasten to obey in all things, fearful of my master's wrath, and that I am your slave conquest, and property, ...

Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	736	She was not, technically, at least at present, a slave in the eyes of the law, as an animal is an animal in the eyes of the law, a tarsk a tarsk, a vulo, so soft and pretty, a vulo.
9	214	The law, the culture, and such, are not set up to permit it.
16	393	Although there are various legal qualifications involved, which vary from city to city, effective, or active, possession is generally regarded as crucial from the point of view of the law, such possession being taken, no other claims forthcoming within a specified interval, as conferri...
20	220	Perhaps that is because the reconciliation and coordination of chronologies, like the diction and convolutions of the law, are usually regarded as scribal prerogatives.
20	310	"It must be clearly understood, by all," said Calliodorus, standing up, smiling, putting his half of the topaz into his pouch, "that the Vosk League, a neutral force on the river, one devoted merely to the task of maintaining law and order on the river, is certainly in no way involved ...
21	315	Few of them, accordingly, are eager to frequent law courts.
21	358	The legal problems connected with intent to deceive with respect to caste, of course, problems of the sort which presumably constitute the rationale of the law, usually come up in cases of fraud or impersonation, for example, with someone pretending to be of the Physicians.
21	776	"Surely a polity, even if it be one of pirates, if it is to survive, if it is to protect itself, must establish some forms of justice and law within its own precincts?" "One would suppose so," I said.
21	845	The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a Home Stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she must then, in law<...
21	958	In the modality of master and slave is found the recognition of, and institutionalization of, within a civilized framework of law, custom and tradition, the ancient complementarity of the sexes, a complementarity consequent upon the extreme and beautiful dimorphism, physi...
24	974	I was once, in the eyes of the law, a free woman".

Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	28	In some cities the veil is prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette; and in most cities it is prohibited, by law, to slaves.
44	214	"Let us be civil, my friend," I cautioned Marcus.
1	891	Given this, it may be seen that, in a sense, the brand and collar, as lovely and decorative as they are, and as exciting and profoundly meaningful as they are, when they are fixed on a woman, and she wears them, and as obviously important as they are from the point of view of property law<...
12	263	That is because they, though legally free, within the strict technicalities of the law, are yet slaves.
19	147	Perhaps she is somewhat uneasy; perhaps she is curious; perhaps she wonders, if he is attractive, what it might be like to be at his feet, unclothed and bound, his, his by all the rules and law of capture.
19	160	Yet, I supposed, that such an absurdity, such an oversight of law, and civilization, was not irremediable.
19	285	Against such fraud, needless to say, the law provides redress.
19	337	"It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".
19	341	Aside from questions of legality, compliance with the law, and such, I think it will be clear upon a moment's reflection that various practical considerations also commend slave branding to the attention of the owner, in particular, the identification of the article as property, this t...
26	58	In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
26	190	Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves.
28	645	"In this situation," I said, "in law, as well as in fact".
39	21	"It is against the law," said the fellow.
39	94	Now, however, she was not merely a natural slave, aware of herself, reduced, and self-confessed, begging the resolution and solace of the collar, but a legal slave, fully and perfectly embonded in law.
40	45	He was, I suspected, a scribe of the law.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	319	He was, I thought, a good man and an estimable civil servant, but he was not a Marlenus of Ar.
10	296	"Do you think she might be more civil," I asked, "if she were stripped?" "Yes," he said, "particularly if she were also branded and collared".
21	41	The calendar, and adjustments in it, are also the results of their researches, promulgated by civil authorities.
1	1	The Street "Surely you understand the law, my dear," he said.
1	19	"I am sure you are familiar with the law," said the first fellow, flanked by two magistrates.
1	24	It is a clear law".
3	284	Surely she must have known the law.
8	846	"It is against the law," he said.
8	847	"Not our law," I said.
9	95	"Are you a legal slave, my child?" asked one of the counselors, a scribe of the law.
9	440	"It is one thing to be captured by a man and taken to his tent, and put to his feet and made to serve, or to be sentenced by a magistrate in due course of law to slavery for crimes which I have actually committed, and another to stand here publicly shamed, before my enemy, a woman, in ...
11	134	"I am a law-abiding man.
14	263	The testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture in Gorean law courts.
15	173	I supposed that the taverners must be much put out by the curfew law, and would have lost much business.
19	484	By such an act, the couching with, or readying herself to couch with, a slave, as though she might be a girl of the slave's master, thrown to the slave, she shows herself as no more than a slave, and in this act, in law, becomes a slave.
19	485	Who then should own her, this new slave? Why, of course, he to whom the law consigns her, the master of the slave with whom she has couched, or was preparing to couch.
19	1386	In this sense the slave is accorded some protection from free persons who do not own her in virtue of certain general considerations of property law.
20	728	How far we were from the cave and the stone knife, I thought, and yet, again, in a way, how close! Could one not see in the blade of steel, so much keener and more dangerous, the knife of stone? Could one not recollect in the spacious courts of the palace the dim recesses of limestone caves? And who...
22	227	"It is the law! We of Ar may not carry weapons".
22	633	Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor.
22	634	Such things do exist in municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local.
26	477	"The principle here, I gather," said Marcus, "is that the Ubara is above the law".
26	478	"The law in question is a serious one," said Tolnar.
26	482	"I am Ubara!" "The Ubara is above the law?" asked Marcus, who had an interest in such things.
26	483	"In a sense, yes," said Tolnar, "the sense in which she can change the law by decree".
26	484	"But she is subject to the law unless she chooses to change it?" asked Marcus.
26	487	"Whatever law it is," cried the netted woman, "I change it! I herewith change it!" "How can you change it?" asked Tolnar.
26	572	The result of this examination, of course, was to produce a network of data which, to a statistical certainty, far beyond the requirements of law, would be unique to a given female.
27	367	I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, say, the slave w...
27	740	"To uphold the law they have jeopardized their careers, they have entered into exile!" "There are such men," I said.

Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	155	But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capacity to ...
12	944	In the pits his word is law for us.
24	971	Gone would be the protection of the law, of guardsmen, of the shared Home Stone.

Book 27. (27 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	501	It is both historical and contemporary; it is honored in custom and tradition; it is honored in practice; it is pervasive, societally and culturally; it is familiar, recognized and unquestioned; it is ingredient in the law and enforced with all the sanctions of the law.
26	752	"Now I surely acknowledge that the confiscation was within the letter of the law, given the current sorry state of Ar and the ordinances of the occupation; and I acknowledge further that she has been out of my hands for more than the number of days which, in Merchant law,...
4	169	She recalled, smartly, her rebuff, earlier, at the hands of the blonde and the civil tolerance, no more than that required by simple courtesy, surely, of the young man.
1	23	Too, this is, I conjecture, in my current reality, not altogether unfitting; indeed, it is altogether appropriate, for you see that is what I now am, categorically, explicitly, an object, and not merely in the eyes of the law, but such irremediably, incontrovertibly, in the very realit...
1	100	The oddity, or anomaly, has to do in its way with law.
1	101	The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such.
1	103	It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law.
1	112	And then, by law, she, totally unaware, became something she had not been before, or not in explicit legality.
1	122	But this reality was later made clear to her, by incontrovertible laws, and deeds, which did not so much confirm the hypothetical strictures of a perhaps hitherto rather speculative law, one extending to a distant world, as replace or supersede them, in an incontrovertibl...
10	122	But here on Gor, she thought, slavery is explicit, acknowledged, sanctified in tradition and law, and here men are the masters, at least of women such as she.
10	327	What concern had the law, in all its power and majesty, with such matters? Whether he loved her or he did not, whether she loved him or she did not, did not matter.
11	161	"Not all," said Mirus, "though it is recommended by Merchant law.
11	179	Not as his eyes had feasted upon her! Perhaps it was all a joke, or a dream? But then she heard the word, explicitly, and realized that slave was what she was, that that was now her absolute and incontrovertible identity, and that this identity, mercilessly imposed upon her, had behind it the full f...
11	241	Could it be she? It was she, she realized, it was! It could be no other! It was she! How the collar enhanced her beauty, in a thousand ways, aesthetically and psychologically, and how delicately, unmistakably, and beautifully, too, was her status, condition, and nature made clear, fixedly and absolu...
12	270	At their back was the full power of custom, tradition and law.
14	115	But here, on this world, thought Ellen, unlike such a woman, I am a slave not only by nature, and appropriately, but under explicit, recognized law.
14	119	On this world I am, in the full sense of the law, explicitly and perfectly, slave.
16	160	Not all masters brand and collar their slaves, but branding and collaring is strongly recommended in Merchant law, and it would be a rare slave girl who was not both branded and collared.
18	134	In its way, the collar has some of the symbolic aspects of the marriage ring, except, of course, that that ring is a symbol worn by a free woman who is the putative equal of a man, whereas the collar is worn by a slave, and, aside from such things as its identificatory purposes, important in Merchan...
22	695	She law light reflected in the eyes of one of the beasts, from the uplifted lantern.
24	485	On Gor, on the other hand, as you have doubtless by now gathered, this omission, or this practice, that of not wearing the veil, is common with, and, indeed, is usually imposed upon, and in many cities by law, slaves.
26	1313	The free woman is a person; she is a citizen; she has standing before the law; she has a Home Stone; she is noble, lofty, and exalted.
27	490	Thus, on the symbolic level, where human sexuality luxuriates, thrives and flourishes, and aside from the obvious identificatory conveniences of Merchant law, it was far more than a lovely piece of jewelry; it enhanced her beauty not only aesthetically but symbolically, overwhelmingly,...
27	2228	Too, society accepts them, and has a place for them and their nature, and reinforces their condition with all the irrefragable power of custom and law.
27	2652	That is to be expected in a natural society, a society in which a prized and essential ingredient is female slavery, a society in which it is an accepted, respected, unquestioned, honored tradition, an institution sanctioned in both custom and law.
27	3488	"For the love of Priest-Kings," cried Tersius Major, "give me something to drink, something to eat!" "You have broken the law of Priest-Kings," said Portus Canio.
30	479	All details of contracts must be arranged, usually with the attention of scribes of the law.

Book 28. (19 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
80	290	Indeed, as earlier noted, this display, as certain others, is prescribed by Merchant law, which is a general, intermunicipal body of law regularly promulgated by the Merchant caste at the great fairs, and tending to be shared by disunited, often hostile, Gorean communitie...
4	128	The next day Cabot brought the wishes of his stall mate to the attention of the interlocutor, making quite certain, in a civil and polite manner, of course, but not in an obsequious manner, that he understood that these were the insistencies, or demands, of the brunette, and he was act...
37	25	It was true, though unknown at the time to Cabot and his slave, that many of these small, scattered groups were indeed unaware of the revolution, or civil war, raging at that time in their world.
73	163	"Perhaps," said Lord Arcesilaus, "our folk will become less precipitate, and driven, and become somewhat more civil, less inclined to hasty, violent response, if their needs and desires are fulfilled, if vessels are at hand, properties, which they may subject to their will, which they ...
1	106	Indeed, they are indispensable in their way; have they not, however unintentionally, secured the foundation of law; have they not, however unbeknownst to themselves, raised from the mire of brutishness, insecurity, and terror the towers of civilization? Surely it is they ...
1	217	Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.
1	843	The most common site for such, recommended in Merchant law, is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
1	1178	Indeed, this is required by Merchant law.
3	113	But does not the collar enhance the beauty of any woman, the contrast with her softness, its irremovability, and its meaning? It is little wonder, he thought, that Merchant law prescribes that the fair throats of female slaves will know the collar, that their fair throats be clasped wi...
19	169	"Lord Pyrrhus is not above the law," said the machine.
19	170	"No one is above the law," speculated Cabot.
19	172	"One is above the law".
27	173	"In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu...
43	338	It would be a matter of law".
55	146	And it is a matter not simply of time and tradition, you must understand, but of mores, customs, practices, an ethos, and abundant and tested law".
79	573	"How is she a slave?" "She fell afoul of a law, one of her own father's laws, that she who couches with, or readies herself to couch with, a slave, becomes the slave of the slave's master, the couching slave in this case, whom I had purchased in order to compromise and en...
79	574	Afterwards, as had been my intent, I freed him, but this, in accord with the law and my plan, left her my slave.
80	279	To be sure, Merchant law, in any case, prescribes the collar, the brand, distinctive garmenture, and such.
80	291	Even were it not for such law, of course, practical considerations would dictate some obvious ways of marking the distinction between the female slave and the free woman.

Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	203	"It is an explicit recommendation of Merchant law".
5	139	I had little love for Priest-Kings, but theirs was the law and the rod which held in check the inventive and indiscreet aggressions of humans on this, their world.
13	437	The master may have many slaves, but the slave may, by law, have but one master, even if it be the state, or some corporate entity.
19	279	"It is the law of Lord Nishida".
22	278	The relationship of female slave and male master, though one established, sanctioned, and enforced by law, is founded obviously on one common in nature, that of, so to speak, the conquered, possessed female and the conquering, possessing male.
26	256	The former Ubara had been embonded in accord with the couching law of Marlenus of Ar, any free woman who couches with, or prepares to couch with, a male slave, becomes herself a slave, and the property of the male slave's master.
26	293	Possession, particularly after a lengthy interval, is often regarded as decisive, by praetors, archons, magistrates, scribes of the law, and such.
26	294	What is of most importance to the law is not so much that a particular individual owns a slave as that she is owned by someone, that she is absolutely and perfectly owned.
28	398	What hubris that a slave should dare to don the garments of a free woman, let alone take a place on a Ubara's throne! Would not each tiny particle of her flesh, one after another, have been publicly removed over weeks, or months, on a needle's point? I had seen to it that she was enslaved, in her ow...
44	47	Later, on a far world, far beyond the Prison Moon, a Steel World, as there were slavers there, and her attractions warranted this, she had been simply taken in hand, and branded and collared, routinely so, they not even understanding at that time that she was already a slave, not that that would hav...

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	668	I realized then, as I had never before, when I had been sheltered within the arrangements, laws, and customs of a civil order, which I had taken so much for granted, how thin, and possibly transitory, such things were, and what might lie at their elbow, or nigh, on the ot...
1	392	She was now without a Home Stone, a fugitive, no longer protected by law.
3	1265	I realized that I was now, in the eyes of the law, no longer the Lady Flavia but an animal that might be named as the free might please.
5	135	The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.
5	242	"The animosity borne to me by your Rutilius of Ar has nothing to do with Cos and Ar, with politics or war, with defense or security, nor with justice or law.
12	503	Indeed, as you know, in a court of law, the testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture.
34	54	The face of the slave, by law, must be naked.
34	79	"In my view, and in that of most, and certainly in the eyes of the law, your status is clear".
36	177	In a couple of places on a platform, there was a harbor praetor, now indoors, in the warehouse, on his curule chair, as opposed to on the docks themselves, their usual station, who might clarify the Merchant law, interpret it, adjudicate disputes, and make rulings.
37	115	It is hard to be in a man's collar and, after a time, not come to be his slave, not merely in law, but in heart.

Book 31. (19 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	146	The responsibilities of the city and state tend to be limited, mostly to protection, civil and municipal, and arbitration.
46	53	It is a sensible first step in civil conquest.
49	198	If nothing else, perhaps one might now look more carefully at the civil conflicts that so often erupt in Gorean cities.
5	50	The collar may be viewed as a simple contrivance, a device prescribed by Merchant law, identifying a slave and, if the collar is engraved, often her master.
8	387	Had I been capable of wondering, on Earth, if I were a slave, a rightful slave, a slave by nature? How foolish now seemed such abstract, idle ruminations! It was now confirmed upon me, that I, the former Allison Ashton-Baker, was a slave, and not only by law, however absolute that lega...
8	780	She was a mere barbarian, a scion of a primitive culture, and I was a civilized woman of Earth, of the upper classes, young, beautiful, educated, intelligent, sensitive, well-bred, refined, now somehow inexplicably entrapped in a barbarian world, a world where I was denied the protecti...
8	782	Thus, here, the law, in all its power and rigor, in all its weight and majesty, would be used not for me but against me, for example, to hunt me down and return me to a master.
8	1289	In that tiny world her word would be law.
8	1480	Men were still the masters, but now not subtly, almost invisibly, as on Earth, but now openly, visibly, in the full force of law.
10	163	I wanted to be his, his property, a helpless object, goods, possessed by him, in all the fullness of law, in all the fullness of culture, in all the fullness of nature.
16	150	And such relationships on Gor were institutionalized, fixed in law! I was collared! I sensed that I belonged on the block, stripped, before such men, who might, fittingly, purchase me as an object, or toy.
17	236	That is clear in law.
17	496	They make us theirs, in reality, and law.
18	700	"That goes far beyond law," I said.
18	702	"It is in law, as well, that the whole slave is owned".
26	212	"It is the law," said Astrinax.
26	218	That is the law".
35	25	I did know that testimony from a slave, at least in a court of law, is commonly taken under torture.
41	15	The law of gravity may be objectionable, but with what is it to be replaced? In any event, whatever might be the cause, most insurrections fail, and those that succeed seldom do more than restore the past with new bodies and different labels.

Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
43	1171	Whereas cities have laws, and most castes have caste codes, there is only one law which is generally respected, and held in common, amongst Gorean municipalities, and that is Merchant law, largely established and codified at the great Sardar Fairs.
21	205	"Be civil".
3	37	That is prescribed in Merchant law.
7	285	It is said they own councils and sway law, that their gold hides and whispers behind thrones, that cities heed their words, that Ubars are often in their debt.
9	239	Custom and tradition, and sometimes law, are involved in these matters.
9	240	The free woman may dress to please herself, but, too, it seems she is well advised to please herself by conforming, and strictly, to a variety of canons, canons of taste, custom, convention, and sometimes of law.
22	149	"She knew the law," I said.
23	127	But Laura could run! She could flee! I was not such a fool as to suppose I was not now a slave, for in the perfection of the law it was so, but I could run.
29	164	Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
43	1172	According to Merchant law an unclaimed slave, one legally subject to claimancy, may be claimed, and then is the property of the claimant.
46	54	Her nature, condition, and status are unquestioned in custom and institutionalized in law.
46	115	An exception is when her testimony is to be taken in a court of law.
48	27	Here it was so not only in the aching, longing reality of the heart, desiring to belong to and serve a master, but in the full, implacable reality of fact, truth, and law.
52	783	You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w...

Book 33. (15 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
42	106	To be sure there might be a civil war about the matter.
13	237	"Such things, identifications in their way, are in accord with Merchant law," I said.
13	256	law returned, in the form of the red sword.
20	78	"Too, that location is commonly recommended in Merchant law, on the continent".
27	53	Such a practice is not likely to elevate respect for the law".
29	406	"On the continent," I said, "it is prescribed by Merchant law".
30	70	"Fortunately for us," had said Tajima, "for times and roads are dangerous, and the protection of the great lord's law is welcome".
31	226	There is no law without the bow and glaive".
46	22	It is prescribed by Merchant law.
46	438	It is prescribed, as indicated earlier, by Merchant law.
46	449	"The peasant Eito," I said, "though seemingly well to do, and presumably peaceful and law-abiding, respectful of authority, and such, was clearly pleased at the slaying of the warrior, Izo.
47	169	It has been used both in courts of law as a procedure for deciding guilt or innocence, and, more commonly, as an amusing manner of execution, in which the naive subject tortures himself into hoping that he may survive.
58	238	Were these not independent, powerful, sovereign species, under no shared law, subject to no common sovereign, capable of imposing its will, but rather stood opposite one another in a state of nature, rather as two larls might face one another, snarling, contesting territory.
58	239	And who would presume to give law to the savage larl? She who had been the Lady Kameko was outside, in the corridor, kneeling, bent over, bound.
60	407	We need law, time to tend our fields, leaders, the protection of the mighty".

Book 34. (16 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
40	80	Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, ...
49	75	Merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.
33	517	Later, there was civil war.
8	244	"Are they not against the law?" he asked.
10	278	Merchant law recommends that female slaves be kept in their collars.
15	162	"By law, heavy drayage is confined to the hours of darkness".
20	95	Would she not be punished for that? The law!" "That is no slave," whispered Lita.
26	16	Similarly there is no international law.
26	17	law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.
26	23	Two further aspects of the Gorean way might also be considered, first, the suspicion and hostility obtaining amongst diverse polities, which militates against cooperation and assistance, and the limits of Gorean law, even within a polity, as Goreans tend to be radically independent and...
30	243	In Gorean law the slave is an animal.
37	157	On the other hand, in the law of Ar, and several other cities, the free woman who pleasures herself with a male slave risks her own enslavement, and becoming the property of the slave's master.
48	151	"In heart," she said, "but not in law.
61	303	But how had she dared to speak? Did she not know she had been cautioned to silence? And how dared she use the expression 'my master' to him, when she belonged to another, to Decius Albus? How tragic can be the lot of a helpless slave! In her heart she was the slave of Drusus Andronicus, but, in the ...
69	71	It was true, in full law.
69	104	You know that much from Merchant law.

Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	132	Even putting aside municipal rivalries, wars, vendettas, blood feuds, and such, it is not difficult to understand, given that quarters are close on a ship, and discipline unquestioning and severe, sometimes for weeks or months at sea, that strong men, brawny, vital oarsmen, and such, come ashore, fr...
47	175	She is often, at first, exhibited as a trophy of victory, in triumphs, civil celebrations, court occasions, and such, but later may be simply put with other female slaves of the victor".
1	188	Merchant law requires that such as you be collared".
1	304	Many other things, of course, keep us as we are, for example, markets and economics, law and custom.
6	59	"How then," asked a man, "could there be honor, order, civility, trust, respect, law, harmony, courage, and fellowship?" "I do not know," said another.
11	132	There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city; I am...
24	56	There might be tangles of law.
32	17	I was sure the tavern's legal claim to me would be upheld by the scribes of the law.
33	503	Without it, how could justice be done and wrongs righted? Where law fails and judges err, what but the blade and quarrel can speak? Let insult be answered and slander avenged.
34	50	The matter is clear in the law".
38	68	Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges.
47	19	You are a slave, by nature, and now by law".

Book 36. (17 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
59	234	"We are a civil society".
61	34	It is well known that a crowd, responding to the wisp of an idea, incited by a shout, stung by a cry, secure in its faceless anonymity, can easily and swiftly transform itself into a clumsy, mindless, many-headed monster freed of all civil and moral constraint.
1	163	"Only those who recognized the advantages and power of ignoring the law".
1	174	One wishes, of course, to obey the law.
19	173	We knew that the bow had been prohibited to the Peasantry of the islands by Cosian law.
19	176	Certainly he was aware of the law, and doubtless more so than we.
19	192	"The laws are the laws of Cos, but the enforcers of the law need not be Cosians".
20	35	"Deliver him to the law!" "Hear me, oh my caste brothers!" called Aktis.
40	68	Impose martial law.
48	125	In some cities it is against the law to deface a scroll or damage a musical instrument.
63	43	Already, today, I have been a pastry cook, a Ubar, a shrewd scribe of the law, a befuddled metal worker, and a sly, oily fellow soliciting patronage for a paga tavern".
63	163	"She was a traitress Ubara, a betrayer of her Home Stone, a subverter of law, an enemy to her own city, a puppet of foes, a duplicitous servant of blood enemies.
63	179	"What need is there of a trial?" "Perhaps," I said, "that vengeance be decked in the colors of law".
63	180	"The Ubar makes law," said Thurnock.
63	181	"He is thus above the law".
63	182	"Do you take the supremacy of law to be a myth?" I asked.
63	183	"Who makes the law?" said Thurnock.