The King's Law/Guard's Handbook
A Guide to the King's Law - Guard's Handbook
This handbook is intended as a quick-reference guide for law enforcement personnel and should not be treated as a judicial interpretation of the law itself.
Offences Against the Person
Offences Against the Person are those which involve the threat or use of violence, as well as the infliction of harm. Offences Against the Person also apply to Magic related incidents.
| Offence | Description | Severity |
|---|---|---|
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Common Assault † |
When a person intentionally or recklessly causes another person to suffer unlawful violence, or genuinely believe that they are about to suffer immediate unlawful violence. (I.e. Direct threats of imminent violence, spitting, a missed punch or minor injury, i.e. some bruises, bloody nose, minor cuts etc.) |
Penalty Offence Low Severity |
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Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) † |
When a person physically attacks another person, causing injury to that person.
(Cuts and severe bruising etc.) |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
| Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) † |
When a person physically attacks another person, causing a serious injury to that person. (Broken bones, serious bruising, bad cuts etc.) |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
| Threats to Kill ‡ |
When a person threatens to kill another person, causing that person to genuinely believe that the threat will be carried out. (Threats can be calculated and premeditated, or said in the heat of the moment. The defendant does not have to have the intention to kill but there has to be an intent that the person to whom the threat has been issued would fear it would be carried out.) |
Indictable Offence Very High Severity |
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Kidnapping |
When a person unlawfully seizes and/or carries away a person, against their will, by force, or threat of force. |
Indictable Offence Very High Severity |
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Stalking |
When a person follows another person, leading a reasonable person to believe that they are in danger. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
† Beginning with Assault, these flagged offences are considered part of an exclusive tier (i.e. ABH is a more severe form of Assault). A suspect must be charged with the most severe offences per instance (i.e. attacking one person cannot result in a charge of both ABH and GBH, only GBH. Attacking 3 people may result in up to three instances, each independently ranging from Assault up to Wounding).
‡ This can be a difficult offence to prove, and it should be reserved for the more serious cases. Where it is doubtful whether the threat carried the necessary intent a charge of Assault or Causing Harassment, Alarm, or Distress may be appropriate.
Offences Against Public Order
Offences Against Public Order are those which happen in a public place; such as on the street or in a tavern, and deal with people acting inappropriately.
| Offence | Description | Severity |
|---|---|---|
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Causing Harassment, Alarm, or Distress |
When a person uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or engages in disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person who is likely to feel harassment, or to who the behaviour causes alarm or distress thereby. (Includes behaviour such as indecent exposure, stalking, excessive swearing in a threatening manner, veiled/indirect threats, etc.) (Does not stack with Assault. For immediate and direct threats, refer to Assault instead.) |
Summary Offence Low Severity |
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Public Nuisance |
When a person exhibits disorderly behaviour which disrupts order or the King's peace, or outrages public decency. (Any conduct that disrupts order and/or the King's peace or outrages public decency, shouting and/or verbal abuse. Fighting not included, see Affray.) (i.e. Being drunk and disorderly, anti-social behaviour.) |
Summary Offence Variable Severity |
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Affray |
When a person uses or threatens to use unlawful violence towards another person and with such conduct as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for their personal safety. (i.e. Fighting in a public place which is not specifically designated for combat practice. Does not stack with Assault.) |
Summary Offence Variable Severity |
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Public Endangerment |
When a person acts or conducts themselves in such a manner, that is creates a substantial risk of physical injury to others in a public place. |
Summary Offence Variable Severity |
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Violent Disorder |
When a person belongs to a group of three (3) or more people who are present together, use or to threaten to use unlawful violence. |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Riot |
Belonging to a group of ten (10) or more people who are present together to use or to threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose. |
Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Violating a Dispersal Order |
When a person who has been issued an active dispersal order, returns to the area in which the dispersal order applies |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Violating a Barring Order |
When a person enters the City of Stormwind while under the effects of an active barring order. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
Offences Against Property
Offences Against Property are those which relate to the illegal acquisition of goods or criminal damage to property.
Often punished according to the amount stolen or attempted stolen.
| Offence | Description | Severity |
|---|---|---|
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Theft |
Stealing money or property. |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Low Severity |
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Robbery |
Theft through the use, or threat, of violence, often referred to as Mugging. |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Medium Severity |
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Banditry |
Organised acts of robbing another in a group of three or more. |
Summary Offence Indictable Severity Variable Severity |
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Trespassing |
Entering a building of another, or public office, without right or permission. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Trading Stolen Property |
Purchasing or selling stolen property. |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Fraud |
Deceit with the intent to cause damage. (Damage is considered to be either physical or financial) |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Low Severity |
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Destruction of Property |
Damaging or destroying the property of another person. (Penalty: Set to double the damaged property.) |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Destruction of Public Property |
Damaging or destroying the property of the Crown. (Fine: Set to triple the damaged property.) |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Sabotage |
Damaging or destroying weapons, equipment, property, or supplies belonging to the Military, Law Enforcement or Intelligence Services. |
Indictable Offence Medium / High Severity |
Offences of Organised Crime
Offences Against Organised Crime are those which relate to organisations that engage in criminal activity, their members, and individuals who support criminal organisations engaging in organised crime.
For the judicial version of the Organised Crime Act, please refer to the Act itself, located here: Organised Crime Act
| Offence | Description | Severity |
|---|---|---|
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Section 4 Membership in a Proscribed Organisation |
A person is guilty of the offence of Membership in a Proscribed Organisation if they belong or profess to belong to a proscribed organisation. (Sentence depends on the type criminal activity that the organisation is involved in and the position of the member. Refer to a prosecutor for further guidance.) |
Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Section 5 Supporting a Proscribed Organisation |
A person is guilty of the offence of Supporting a Proscribed Organisation if they:
(Whether this offence was committed largely depends on the specifics, refer to the relevant Act for details.) (Does not stack with Section 4.) |
Indictable Offence Medium/High Severity |
Proscribed Organisations
(As listed in Schedule 1: Proscribed Organisations of the Organised Crime Act)
- The Defias Brotherhood
- The Scarlet Crusade
- The Wastewander Bandits
- The Syndicate
- Cult of the Damned
- The Copper Crown
- The Red Jackals
- The Browncloaks
Offences Against the Use of Magic
Offences Against the Use of Magic are those which relate to the crimimal, improper or unsanctioned use of magic.
For the judicial version of the Misuse of Magic Act, please refer to the Act itself, located here: Misuse of Magic Act.
| Offence | Description | Severity |
|---|---|---|
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Section 1 Misuse of Magic |
Using any type of magic in the execution of a criminal offence. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Section 2 Unsanctioned Practice of Forbidden Magic |
Casting a spell or enchantment of a forbidden type without being sanctioned to do so. |
Indictable Offence Medium / High Severity |
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Section 3 Unsanctioned Mental Invasion |
Breaching the mind of a person without being sanctioned to do so. A person is allowed to enter the mind of another if consent is given. |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
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Section 4 Unsanctioned Appearance of a Familiar |
Allowing a controlled familiar to take on a form that is larger than 6ft tall, 6f wide, obscene or distasteful, or that of a fully sentient being, without being sanctioned to do so. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Section 5 Inadequate Familiar Identification |
Allowing a controlled familiar to take form without a seal or symbol of its summoner/controller, or a false seal or symbol. |
Summary Offence Low Severity |
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Section 6 Summoning of a Demon |
Casting a spell or ritual which results in a demonic entity taking form in the mortal realm. |
Indictable Offence Medium / High Severity |
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Section 7 Unsanctioned Teleportation and Portal Manifestation |
Using teleportation magic to enter the City of Stormwind without passing through the mage tower's teleportation anchor without sanction. Opening a portal to an unauthorised drop-off zone without Special Issue License D-6. Opening a portal larger than 3 yards, 1 foot, 3 and 3/4 inches tall, 2 yards, 8 feet, 9 and 15/16 inches wide without Special Issue License G-16. Disposing of solids, liquids gasses or plasma using portals or teleportation magic without sanction. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Section 8 Unlawful Use and Exploitation of Conjuration |
Conjuring coins that resemble the sovereign currency. Conjuring objects for sale or exchange, where the vendor has mislead the purchaser to believe they are not conjured. Conjuring an object for use in a criminal act. Conjuring a deadly object or substance. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Section 9 Unlawful Use of Transmutation |
Polymorphing an individual in to a complex creature. Polymorphing a low intelligence creature into a high intelligence creature. Transmuting a living biological entity in to a non-living material. Transmuting multiple creatures in to a single creature. Transmuting materials in to other materials, without a transmutation hallmark on the new material. Performing physiological transmutation on a person without permission and without qualification. |
Indictable Offence Medium / High Severity |
Capital Offences
Capital Offences are the most serious of offences.
| Offence | Description | Severity |
|---|---|---|
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Murder |
When a person of sound mind and discretion unlawfully kills any person in being under the King's Peace with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (GBH). |
Indictable Offence Very High Severity |
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Capital Murder |
The unlawful killing of a Soldier, Guard or Intelligence Agent of the Kingdom of Stormwind. |
Indictable Offence Extremely High Severity |
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Assassination |
The unlawful killing of a State Official of the Kingdom of Stormwind. (Magistrates, Judges, Prosecutorss, Religious or Political figures, Military Officers or Intelligence Officers.) |
Indictable Offence Extremely High Severity |
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Involuntary Manslaughter |
When a person negligently or recklessly causes the unlawful death of another. (If the suspect caused a death unintentionally through misadventure, preventable mistake, or negligence.) |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
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Voluntary Manslaughter |
When a person knowingly or intentionally causes the unlawful death of another after reasonable provocation. |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
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Misconduct in Public Office |
The performance of an act by a public official that is harmful, legally unjustified, or contrary to law. (Magistrates, Judges, Prosecutors, Religious or Political figures, Law Enforcement personnel, Military Officers or Intelligence Officers are all public officials. Sentence according to the severity of the act.) |
Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Kidnapping |
Unlawfully seizing and/or carrying away a person, against their will, by force, or threat of force. (Demanding ransom or property in exchange for a person in their custody also applies.) |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
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Theft of Information |
The act of stealing confidential information from a Law Enforcement entity, Court of Law officials, the Military or Intelligence Services. (Guard reports, court of law documents, classified intelligence, forcing another to provide verbal classified information or eavesdropping included.) |
Indictable Offence Very High Severity |
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Misuse of Information |
The act of spreading confidential information to unauthorised personnel. (Guard reports, legal documents, classified intelligence etc.) |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
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Treason |
The act of, or attempt to, overthrow one's government. To harm or kill its sovereign. |
Indictable Offence Very High Severity |
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Torture |
To afflict severe pain of body or mind upon another. (the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, magic, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure) |
Indictable Offence Very High Severity |
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Impersonation |
To deceptively act or conduct oneself for the purposes of fraud in a way that may cause a reasonable person to believe that the perpetrator is a different person. (Pretending to be a public official; i.e. a guard, a judge, an intelligence officer or military officer, acts as an aggravating factor.) |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
Offences Against Goods and Trade
Offences Against Goods and Trade are those which relate to the illegal possession, distribution or manufacture of articles classified under the Goods and Trade Controlled Articles provisions.
| Offence | Description | Severity |
|---|---|---|
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Possession of a Class-A Controlled Article |
When a person carries a Class-A controlled article. |
Summary Offence Low Severity |
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Distribution of a Class-A Controlled Article |
When a person sells or distributes a Class-A controlled article. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Manufacture of a Class-A Controlled Article |
When a person manufactures, produces or grows a Class-A controlled article. |
Indictable Offence Medium Severity |
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Possession of a Class-B Controlled Article |
When a person carries a Class-B controlled article. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Distribution of a Class-B Controlled Article |
When a person sells or distributes a Class-B controlled article. |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
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Manufacture of a Class-B Controlled Article |
When a person manufactures, produces or grows a Class-B controlled article. |
Indictable Offence Medium Severity |
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Possession of a Forged Article |
When a person carries a forged copy of a document, signature, money or other item of value for unlawful purposes. |
Summary Offence Penalty Offence Low Severity |
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Distribution of a Forged Article |
When a person distributes a forged copy of a document, signature, money or other item of value for unlawful purposes. |
Summary Offence Penalty Offence Medium Severity |
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Manufacture of a Forged Article |
When a person manufactures a forged copy of a document, signature, money or other item of value for unlawful purposes. |
Indictable Offence Summary Offence High Severity |
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Smuggling |
When a person transports or ships a controlled article. |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
A Rated Illegal Substances
- Most narcotics, including felweed
- Undocumented gunpowder
- Undocumented magical items
- Undocumented weapons
- Human (or other sentient races) body parts and corpses
- Stolen property
- Treasonous materials
B Rated Illegal Substances
- Undocumented poisons, toxins, and biological agents
- Undocumented explosives
- Ritual items for dark magic
- Artifacts of unknown origin
- Saronite Ore and Ingots
Companion Offences
| Offence | Description | Severity |
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Attempted <Offence Name> |
An attempt takes place when a person commits an act which is more than merely preparatory for the commission of the full offence. (Ex.: Attempted Theft. If the suspect is seen through another person's belongings without permission/with likely intent to steal, then this would be a case of attempted theft.) Attempts can sometimes be difficult to prove. Remember, an attempted offence is not committed unless the suspect has taken a clear action toward committing the full offence: Intent alone does not constitute an attempted offence.) |
Variable (Sentence according to the severity of the full crime.) |
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Collusion |
When a person knows of a plan to commit a criminal act but fails to report it to Law Enforcement. |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Failure to Report |
When a person has knowledge of a criminal act but fails to report it to Law Enforcement. (Including witnesses who do not step forward or refuse to give statement.) |
Summary Offence Low Severity |
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Accessory |
When a person assists in the commission of a offence. (Both directly and indirectly. Sentence according to the offence the suspect is an Accessory to.) |
Variable Severity |
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Assaulting a Constable |
Assaulting a law enforcement officer in the execution of their duty. (Includes physical violence to resist a lawful arrest. Stacks with any corresponding Offence Against the Person except Common Assault). (Suspect must have been told of the offence they are suspected of as soon as is practicable during or after their arrest.) |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Obstructing a Constable |
Resisting or wilfully obstructing a law enforcement officer in the execution of their duty. (Example: Citizen refusing to remove themselves from an area when lawfully ordered to do so by a law enforcement officer. Does not stack with Assaulting a Constable.) |
Summary Offence Medium Severity |
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Obstruction of Justice |
Interfering or obstructing Law enforcement officers in their lawful duties. (Applies to obstructive and/or abusive lawyers. Sentence set to the degree of obstruction, it falls from Low to High severity.) |
Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Perverting the Course of Justice |
The offence of Perverting the Course of Justice is committed when an accused does an act or series of acts which has or have a tendency to pervert and which is or are intended to pervert the course of public justice. (The course of justice starts when an event has occurred, from which it can reasonably be expected that an investigation will follow, investigations which could/might bring proceedings have actually started, or proceedings have started or are about to start.) (Includes corruption, making a false statement, using documents with intent to deceive, etc. Does not stack with other offences for the same conduct.) |
Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
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Absconding |
Escaping, or preparing to escape, lawful custody. (Absconding warrants the use of lethal force, if deemed necessary.) |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
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Evasion of Justice |
Escaping, or attempting to escape, from one's lawful punishment for an offence. (Including breaking release-terms or other freedom sanctions.) |
Indictable Offence High Severity |
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Perjury |
Knowingly making false statement during a Court in session or to a Magistrate and/or Judge directly. |
Indictable Offence Medium Severity |
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Harbouring a Criminal |
To afford lodging to, to shelter, or to give a refuge to a criminal and/or suspected criminal. (Sentence: Consider the criminal the suspect harboured aid to.) |
Summary Offence Indictable Offence Variable Severity |
