Objective law

Objective law (正法) is a legal system prevalent across many parts of the world. It is largely based on, and implemented as, a form of customary law.

Objective law was created by Yang the Thirteenth, a charismatic prophet of the 13th century who created the Axial Empire, which was the first polity to implement it. With the collapse of the Empire in the 17th century, the practice of objective law has received variations in different areas, but is nominally still uphold across much of the eastern world.

Principles

The principles of objective law holds that it is essentially natural law, expressed mostly through human reason. There are a number of axioms, such as the right to property ownership, and the non-aggression principle.

Courts

Originally the implementation of objective law was achieved through a loose hierarchy unified under the Axial Empire. However, since the Settlement War, no court claims universal jurisdiction over the practice of objective law. Rather, grand courts (大理廷) take near-absolute precedence in designated areas. Strictly speaking the status of any grand court is not sacred and they may be out-competed and displaced by other grand courts if possible. A grand court also frequently upholds its own spin on objective law.

Most serious proceedings are done at regional-local levels by general courts (理廷), and local courts of less prestige and ability serve issues of lesser importance. The hierarchy of these courts is largely customary and not enshrined by any means, besides some general guidelines to behavior by the grand court or by the axioms of objective law.