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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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20 7 I passed the throne of the wharf praetor, he in his robes, with the two scribes, for the settling of disputes which might occur on the quays.
20 13 The praetor was a sour fellow.
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.
24 105 In some cities, however, there is a slave praetor, who will make inquiries where the doings of slaves may be involved, and will be in charge of resolving squabbles, for example, in the market, assigning punishments for offenses, and so on, functions commonly thought beneath the attenti...
24 106 Any free citizen may remand a slave to the attention of the slave praetor.
24 108 Sometimes a girl, who may have been spoiled by an indulgent master, does not find the slave praetor so forgiving or tolerant.
24 109 We fear the slave praetor and do not care to go before him.

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 156 I decided it would be best to search for a merchant who was on the fair's staff, or find one of their booths or praetor stations, where such information might be found.

Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 4 We stood in the vicinity of the high desk of the wharf praetor.
4 13 "I have been robbed! What are you doing about this?" "Be patient," said the wharf praetor.
4 16 The praetor handed a sheet of paper to one of his guardsmen.
4 41 "Return the girl to the praetor's station on this pier," said the guardsman.
4 43 "You are not the first," said the praetor, looking down at him from the high desk.
4 52 "We shall send two guardsmen to investigate," said the praetor.
4 56 The praetor dispatched a pair of guardsmen, who moved swiftly toward the Rim canal.
4 102 There seemed to be something going on now at the post of the wharf praetor, so I returned to that area.
4 104 She stood before the high desk of the praetor, her wrists tied behind her back.
4 122 "What do you have in your mouth, Girl?" asked the praetor.
4 126 The praetor placed the coin on his desk, the surface of which was some seven feet high, below the low, solid wooden bar.
4 127 The height of the praetor's desk, he on the high stool behind it, permits him to see a goodly way up and down the wharves.
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.
4 129 The wooden bar before the desk's front edge makes it impossible to see what evidence or papers the praetor has at his disposal as he considers your case.
4 134 "She is the one who cooperated in the attack upon you?" asked the praetor, indicating the bound girl.
4 137 "I have never seen him before in my life!" "I see," said the praetor.
4 140 "How did you come to be helpless and tied beside the canal?" inquired the praetor.
4 145 "I am a free woman!" "Examine the pouch of the man," said the praetor.
4 150 "It seems that the fellow who robbed you," smiled the praetor, "neglected to take your pouch".
4 153 "He also left you a tarsk bit," said the praetor, to the girl.
4 168 "Unbind me," said he then to the praetor.
4 173 "It is obvious," he said, to the praetor, "that this she-urt, whoever she is, wishes to implicate me in her guilt, that it will go easier on her".
4 174 "I assure you," smiled the praetor, "it will not go easier on her".
4 178 "If you should attempt to do that again, my dear," said the praetor, "your ankles will be tied, and you will hear the rest of the proceedings while lying on your belly before the tribunal".
4 180 "What is your name?" asked the praetor of the girl.
4 186 "Usually," smiled the praetor, "a free woman wears more than binding fiber and a neck strap".
4 189 "Who took it," asked the praetor, "a casual male, curious to see your body?" "A girl took it," she cried, angrily, "a blond girl.
4 196 The praetor turned to two guardsmen.
4 200 I thought the praetor's conjecture was a sound one.
4 204 "You will receive it, Lady Sasi," said the praetor.

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

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17 31 For a woman, remanded to a praetor, the penalty is commonly that she herself will then wear the collar".

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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30 165 Once or twice a year, particularly when there are complaints, or they are becoming nuisances, many of them will be rounded up and taken before a praetor.

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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6 560 "Perhaps we could get a ruling on the matter from a praetor," suggested Boots.

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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19 213 Although I had no proof of the sort which might convince a praetor I was confident that it was Ephialtes of Torcadino who had stolen the letters.
25 1812 Accordingly, her own period of unconsciousness, given this possibility, might possibly last several Ahn, more than enough time to be carried to a cell in a praetor's holding area.

Book 22. (8 results) Dancer of Gor

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17 305 "Are you a magistrate, or a praetor's agent?" inquired my master, narrowly.
17 328 "Still," said the man, "it might be of some interest to a praetor to hear you protest your innocence in the matter.
20 226 For example, if a fellow has been sentenced, say, to two years of hard labor by a praetor, he might be turned over, for a small fee, to the master of a work gang who will see to it, theoretically, that he performs these two years of hard labor.
24 343 Some may have been as innocent as those I had lured, and might have been lured by other girls, such as I, and others might have been murderers and brigands, suitably enchained for the expiation of sentences, their custody having been legally transferred to Ionicus, my master, at the payment of a pri...
26 106 "It is an average praetor's price," he said.
27 144 Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a free woman, as she had hitherto s...
27 149 Would they not simply take off her clothes and punish her, and then hand her over to a praetor, for her proper disposition? Too, what could such a pretense gain her but the closing of doors on the truth of her being? But even if these things were not true, as she feared they were, she ...
27 178 What sort of inquiries had he had in mind, and to whom did they pertain? Did they pertain to him? Did they pertain to me? Or perhaps he feared that they might pertain to me? Was that why he had sold me, rather abruptly, as it seemed, now that I thought of it? And who was making such inquiries? I tho...

Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

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16 391 She might turn herself over to a praetor, hoping for mercy, as she had surrendered herself.

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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46 234 There one of Ina's pursuers, I recognized him from earlier, was making inquiries of one of the five camp prefects, fellows under the camp praetor.
46 235 The prefects are identified by five slash marks, alternately blue and yellow, the slavers' colors, on their left sleeve, the praetor himself by nine such stripes, and lesser officials by three.

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

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28 47 "The court of the commercial praetor of the high city of Treve," said the praetor's officer, "accepts the prisoner as the Lady Constanzia of Besnit".
29 32 I did not doubt but what one set was papers of the court, stamped with the sign of the court, and certified with the signature of a praetor's officer, if not the praetor himself.
26 27 "The agreed-upon amounts have been lodged with the business council, the entire matter attested to by the commercial praetor.
28 4 He was, as I understood it, an officer in the business court, that under the jurisdiction of the commercial praetor, subject, ultimately, to the high council.
28 7 A broad, scarlet marble circle was before the high desk of the praetor's officer, and the Lady Constanzia was conducted to its center, the guards then withdrawing, moving back, several feet, leaving her there, alone, on the circle.
28 24 To the left of the praetor's officer, to our right, as we faced him, below him, on the floor level, on a bench, behind a table, was a court's clerk.
28 25 "You are the Lady Constanzia, of the city of Besnit?" inquired the praetor's officer.
28 27 "You have been the object of a ransom capture," said the praetor's officer.
28 33 "Have the agents of the redemptor accepted her as the Lady Constanzia?" inquired the praetor's officer.
28 40 The praetor's officer nodded to the clerk and he carried the slipper to the Lady Constanzia, who took it in her hands, and looked upon it.
28 41 "Do you recognize it?" asked the praetor's officer.
28 44 "It matches with that brought by the agent of the redemptor?" asked the praetor's officer.
28 49 "You are now within the custody of the court of the commercial praetor of Treve," said the officer.
28 51 "There is also the matter of a necklace," said the praetor's officer.
28 54 "Do you recognize the necklace?" asked the praetor's officer.
28 73 "Destroy the necklace," said the praetor's officer to the clerk.
28 75 "It is paste," said the praetor's officer.
28 78 "Such things are seldom used in ransom captures," said the praetor's officer.
28 83 "The joke," said the praetor's officer, "was richer than you understood".
28 85 "Do you know the identity of your redemptor?" asked the praetor's officer.
28 91 "The gold was fairly purchased at competitive prices," said the praetor's officer.
28 106 "Do you know now," asked the praetor's officer, "who your redemptor is?" "Surely," she said.
28 110 "It was naturally intended that your brothers, your own house, should be your redemptor," said the praetor's officer.
28 113 "Surely you were aware of delays in the matter of your ransom," said the praetor's officer.
28 115 "Your brothers refused to pay," said the praetor's officer.
28 125 "An oath, it seems, was sworn," said the praetor's officer.
28 130 "Do you not wish to leap up, and try to escape?" asked the praetor's officer.
28 134 "I can guarantee it," said the praetor's officer.
29 1 I knelt to one side, and back, in shadows, inconspicuously by the wall, in the circular chamber of the court of the commercial praetor.
29 7 There was no need, now, for the presence of the praetor's officer.

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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27 1851 "It is not impossible that a praetor may speak for her, even a stratigos or a polemarkos".

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

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21 353 An additional bar was handed to one of the challengers, by an arena praetor, or officer.
21 519 A praetor now approached the seventh challenger, and placed in his huge paws a gigantic ax, some ten feet in length, and double-bladed at each end, an ax which, in the grip of one such as he, one of such strength, might have decapitated a larl, and perhaps even, with three or four blow...

Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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13 180 "But, now, you might rather be brought before a praetor, for the iron and the collar".

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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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.

Book 31. (12 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1016 It seemed probable to me that this matter had been arranged, perhaps even with the collusion of a praetor, if not the Ubar himself.
9 147 This one, however, was simply disrobed, bound hand and foot, and put in a wagon, for delivery to a market praetor, who would see to her return to her master, or, that failing, to her lashing, fugitive branding, and resale.
11 141 "Too, some thieves, some well known, in broad daylight, even within view of the praetor's platform, pushing aside a grating, rushed from a sewer, to be shortly apprehended by rings of spear-bearing guardsmen.
14 34 "Do you know the praetor's platform, by the coin stalls?" asked the beast.
15 17 Why had I done that? I knew what I was to do, elude guardsmen, and go to the market of Cestias, near the praetor's platform near the coin stalls.
15 23 Why was I obeying the beast? Why was I moving, as I could, toward the market of Cestias? Would it not have been better to flee anywhere else? Why would he want me there, rather than somewhere else? Was it in the market, near the praetor's platform that he wished to apprehend me? Was I ...
15 118 I then began, again, my progress, bit by bit, toward the praetor's platform, and the empty coin stalls.
15 119 I remembered that, days ago, some thieves, fleeing, had emerged from a sewer in the vicinity of the praetor's platform, and had been apprehended by guardsmen.
15 122 At last, to my relief, I came to the coin stall nearest the praetor's platform.
15 135 Was I to stay here all night? I then became afraid, even though it was the middle of the night, that I might be apprehended in the market, in the morning, when guardsmen, at the praetor's signal, opened the market to the stallsmen, merchants, and dealers.
15 221 Then there had been word of the seemingly rash flight of the thieves, seemingly so inexplicable, emerging in daylight in the market of Cestias, in the vicinity of the very platform of a praetor, with guardsmen aplenty about, amongst the vendors and stalls.
15 359 Shortly after dawn the lantern on its pole at the edge of the market of Cestias would be extinguished, and, a bit later, the market pennon would be hoisted to the height of the pole, above the lantern arm, after which, at the praetor's signal, guardsmen would open the market.

Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

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69 18 Such agreements are put in writing, of course, before a praetor's man.
69 148 "We can see a praetor tomorrow.