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- A married Citizen whom betrays his or her contracted unions and commits adultery with a married or unmarried non-Citizen is fined up to five gold, publicly shamed, and often flogged by their spouse whom they have betrayed or a Sergeant of the Watch stationed in their village, settlement or at City Hall where others can gather to watch. Should a child be produced from the union and it is proven, if the father is the Citizen of the party he is responsible to pay no coin to the non-Citzen Citizen mother and can deny the child’s existence fully after his punishment has been served. If the mother is the Citizen party and she betrayed her spouse with a non-Citzen Citizen and a child is produced and proven by said union, her husband has fully legal right to decline the child from their household and said child would be relinquished to the wife’s family or an orphanage. The adultery-committing woman carries her shame and her family does as well, if any are present, to provide for the baseborn child as they or she sees fit. It is very common that baseborn children are relinquished to orphanages for the raising of children are expensive and a commonly considered a burden when baseborn.
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