User blog:Bardurwashome/Galactic Law

Legal Status of Belligerents

 * Native Belligerent Combatants: Right to civil treatment, Right to parley, Right to capitulation, Expansive immunity
 * Organized legal Belligerent Combatants: Right to civil treatment, Right to parley, Right to capitulation
 * Organized illegal Belligerent Combatants: Right to civil treatment, Right to parley, Right to capitulation
 * Belligerent Mercenaries: Right to civil treatment, Right to civil execution, Right to parley
 * Unorganized illegal Belligerent Combatants: Right to civil treatment, Right to civil execution, Right to parley
 * Native Belligerent Criminals: Right to civil treatment, Right to civil execution, Expansive immunity
 * Illegal Belligerent Criminals: Right to civil treatment, Right to civil execution

Protocol over Diplomatic Missions

 * Sovereign Embassy:
 * Autonomous Embassy:
 * Sovereign Envoy:
 * Autonomous Envoy:

State Succession

 * Continuator State: Same state, new government, all treaties and legal obligations, including debts, remain binding. All right, benefits, and privileges are also applied.
 * Successor State: New state, legal relationship to previous state with significant alterations to culture, religion, government, and demographics as well as a change in government and legal system, cannot always be applied to a rump state as a rump state is often a continuator. The successor adopts all debts. Anything belonging to treaty, domestic law, or international agreement may be renegotiated. All statuses are claimed but reappropriated.
 * Rump State: Same state of plurality missing majority, adopts most debts. most things belonging to treaty or international agreement apply or may be renegotiated while others may be lost. Domestic national and regional law remain.

Acquisition Law

 * Killers Rights: Similar to a first come first served basis, claim may be made over uninhabited territory, seas, and resources by investing time and effort and displaying stewardship, use, or necessity.
 * Staking Rights: Native populations claim ownership via staking
 * Secession Rights: Rights over properties physical, intellectual, essential, or legal over that of deceased may be made by those of claimed relation to the deceased party or recipients of the effort or effect.