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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3250121" data-attributes="member: 13892">Note that contractual law and civil law (as you've defined them above) aren't tiers, so much as they are types of law that can occur on any one of three tiers of authority (Imperial, Provincical, or Metropolitan). That said, you've empowered provinces to relegate their own civil issues, so that's the tier that it would fall on in your setting (i.e, Provincial Law). Now, Church Law is usually a special case. . . In many societies of our own Earth, there were times when Chruch Law (or authority) superceded all earthly rule and was the highest law in the land, with those who failed to adhere to it being threatened with death. There were other times when the Church's authority was specifically ignored by monarchs -- with those who did adhere to it being threatened with death. Basically, you need to decide what kind of power the Church in your setting wields befoe you can determine what legal authority it wields (if any). Does Church Law supercede Imperial Law, or can the Emperor overrule the Church? If you're merely treating "Crimes Against the Chuch" as being enforced by the Emperor, then (again) your Church Law isn't a tier of its own but a type of Imperial Law (i.e., the Emperor writes and enforces it).</blockquote>