Claude decided to accompany his mother in this lawsuit. He believed that when his mother sued him, his sister Anna, and his brother Blovik to the noble court of the kingdom, he had already made the decision to cut off this family relationship. The Kingdom's Noble Court is responsible for hearing conflicts between the Kingdom's noble classes and matters such as inheritance and division. This is the first time that a mother has sued her three children for unfilial piety and required them to repay the huge loan debt of the family territory.
Generally speaking, the cases heard by the Kingdom's Noble Court are mostly cases where the children of a certain Kingdom's noble died unexpectedly and competed for the inheritance of family property and title. But the case in which the mother of the Kingdom Marshal Count Claude sued her children really gave them a headache. There was no precedent for this! The lawsuit was dismissed twice, but his mother refused to let it go and submitted it again after revisions.
Originally Count Claude's mother and three children were one family, but His Majesty the King intervened and made Claude's late father a Viscount of the Kingdom, so his mother transferred herself and her eldest son from Count Claude. The family was divided into another family. The three brothers and sisters of Count Claude are now required to bear the huge loan debt borne by another family's land grant. No matter how you look at it, it seems that there is something wrong, but there is no reason to explain...
The third lawsuit filed only emphasized the nurturing kindness of his mother to the three Count Claude siblings, and asked the three Count Claude siblings to acknowledge their parents' love for them and take the initiative to protect the family they were given. To make a due contribution to the territory is to bear the huge loan of one million gold crowns owed to obtain the family territory. The reason why the three brothers and sisters of Count Claude should bear this debt is simple. They are rich and the family is poor.
This is an alternative way of robbing the rich and giving to the poor. The mother forces her children to bear repayment responsibilities and obligations for debts that do not belong to them. The justices of the Kingdom's Noble Court were talking a lot and were preparing to dismiss the lawsuit again and declare that it would never be accepted. Because they believe that once such an example occurs, there will be loopholes in the kingdom's laws. The first heir to the title can completely distribute the family debt to his brothers and sisters, which will have a very bad impact.
It was only at this time that the justices were asked to request the Kingdom's Noble Court to take over the case. After careful inquiry, I found out that many senior people in the kingdom were dissatisfied with Count Claude's disdainful attitude towards the kingdom and were prepared to embarrass and humiliate him in this case. His mother's complaint was the result of these high-level people pushing the flames behind the scenes...
This is related to the face of the kingdom's senior officials. It is said that Claude, as the kingdom's marshal and the top military leader of the overseas autonomous territories military region, has repeatedly destroyed the royal court's plans for the overseas autonomous territories. The Dominion Military Region has left the Kingdom's Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Navy behind and has gone its own way, showing signs of independence. In terms of strategy, Wang Tingnai had no control over the Dominion Military Region, but this did not prevent him from reducing Marshal Claude's personal influence on the Dominion Military Region in terms of personal morality.
So Claude soon received a letter from the Kingdom's Noble Court, requiring him to appear in court for a case hearing in the royal capital three months later. The reason why it took so long was that his mother was not suing him alone, but also his sister Anna and brother Blovik. The court also had to hand them notices to appear in court, and it took such a long time to travel back and forth to the overseas autonomous territories.
The news spread quickly. Like General Skerry, most of the members of the Dominion learned the news and wrote letters to express condolences to Claude and provide advice. Speaker Bennett went to Wangjing Saint-Hyprian City to have a meeting with Claude. He was originally a legal consultant and was considered the most proficient in the kingdom's laws in the overseas dominions. His advice to Claude was to plead guilty. Obey the sentence and pay to settle the lawsuit.
Speaker Bennett told Claude that this case was not simple because it itself violated the laws of the kingdom. The Kingdom’s Noble Court not only failed to dismiss the lawsuit, but instead filed a case and decided to hear it, which is very abnormal. If Claude decides to go to court to fight this lawsuit, he will be dragged endlessly in the capital to worry about this case. The Kingdom's Noble Court can ask Claude to appear in court every other month. The longer this case is delayed, the greater the humiliation Claude will suffer, and the longer it is delayed...
"What about entrusting others to appear in court?" Claude didn't want to go to the royal capital.
"There is only one situation where you can entrust someone to appear in court, and that is when the case is finished and the verdict is announced." Speaker Bennett told Claude very seriously that the trial procedure of the Kingdom's Noble Court requires both the plaintiff and the defendant to be present and face each other before they can give their testimony. efficient. Therefore, if Claude wants to litigate with his mother, he must appear in court, and his appearance in court will mean humiliation for him.
Claude cannot ignore the case yet, even if he thinks his mother is making trouble unreasonably, he must go to the royal capital to confront his mother in court and refute the accusation of unfilial piety. If he is unwilling to appear in court, the case will be ruled in favor of his mother. Not only will Claude have to suffer an unjust injustice and bear the huge debt of one million gold crowns, he will also have to accept the penalty decision of the Kingdom's Noble Court. It will have a huge negative impact on his reputation.
"Perhaps many people hope that you will not appear in court, so that they can unscrupulously spread rumors on you. Even if you stay in the overseas autonomous territories, they will still make up lies for you in the capital. Because your mother this time This is the first case of a mother accusing her children in the kingdom. If you don't come forward to respond, your reputation as unfilial will be ruined. People who don't know the truth will think that you three brothers and sisters are really at fault... . ”
Speaker Bennett also did not recommend that Claude go to the Royal Capital to file a lawsuit with his mother to sort out right from wrong. He believed that this was probably a conspiracy against Claude and used this lawsuit to trap Claude in the Royal Capital. , having no time to take into account the next development and affairs of the Dominion Military Region. If this lawsuit takes two years, it means that Claude must stay in the Royal Capital for two years without any way to escape. If there are any changes in the Dominion Military Region, Claude will not be able to take care of it.
"So I suggest that you plead guilty and entrust someone to go to the capital to appear in court on your behalf. In the first court hearing, you accept the punishment and pay to settle the case. The advantage of this is that you can propose to sever the family ties between the two Field families. , in the future, whatever happens to your mother and your eldest brother’s family, you will not be implicated. Because your mother’s lawsuit against you means that she has severed the mother-child relationship with you and used money to buy off the upbringing of you three brothers and sisters. ... ..."
What Speaker Bennett said makes sense. In order to avoid future disputes after ruling on cases involving noble children competing for family property, the Kingdom's noble court would sever the kinship relationship between the two parties and sever the blood relationship between the plaintiff and defendant to prevent future disputes. What more is involved. Therefore, Claude can also make a request to the Kingdom's Noble Court this time to sever the family relationship between the two parties, so that he will no longer be implicated by his mother and eldest brother's family in the future.
Claude felt his head hurt and tired. After thinking for a few days, he finally decided to adopt Speaker Bennett's proposal, so he wrote a letter to his sister Anna and brother Blovik, telling the whole story of the lawsuit. process, and also explained the measures and countermeasures he planned to take, and then asked an armored destroyer to send his two letters to the overseas autonomous territories.
Fortunately, apart from some troubles caused by this lawsuit, the situation in the Hicks Kingdom has not changed much, and it is still proceeding in accordance with Claude's strategic layout. Even though the ten counties in the west were annexed by the troops sent by the three surrounding countries, the Grand Duke of the North made no move. According to the plan, Claude led his troops to evacuate the city of Saint Hyprian in Wangjing. The next day, the legions of the Grand Duke of Sunset River recovered the capital of the Hicks and celebrated that they had driven away the invaders and won the victory. great victory...
When we arrived at Patkara Port, it was already late January in the 606th year of the Holy Light Calendar. The armored destroyer sent Claude two replies and two letters of authorization from his sister Anna and his brother Blovik. In her reply, her sister Anna felt very sad about her mother's stubbornness and stubbornness, and she hated her for taking her three brothers and sisters to court. In her letter, she stated that she would stand with Claude, re-establish the Han Field family, and sever family ties with the Thorn Field family.
The reply from his younger brother Blovik was simple. He said that the mother who loved him had passed away long ago. He had gone to the household registration department to restore the surname Han Field. He did not admit that the Thorn Field family was related to him. In addition to the reply letter, there are two letters of full power. Claude is responsible for settling the lawsuit. They will bear the victory or defeat of the lawsuit together with Claude. No matter what the outcome is, the three of them will bear it together... .
Claude also wrote a letter of full power of attorney, and then gave these three letters of full power to Speaker Bennett, who appeared in court on behalf of the three Claude brothers and sisters, and the lawsuit was settled in the first court hearing. In this way, although Claude lost the lawsuit and lost a lot of money, he was freed from the burden of his confused and stubborn mother and his eldest brother Albert, who had ulterior motives. Perhaps this would make it easier in the future.
On February 25, the noble court in the royal capital opened to hear the case brought by the mother of the Field family against her children. The aristocrats of the royal capital filled the auditorium. No one expected that Speaker Bennett would attend in place of the three Claude brothers and sisters. After the justice read out the mother's lawsuit, Speaker Bennett stood up and presented the power of attorney for the three Claude siblings and represented Claude. The three brothers and sisters admitted defeat and were willing to bear the loan debt of one million gold crowns...
But at the same time, Speaker Bennett said that Claude’s mother had more than three children, as well as the eldest son Albert, who inherited the Thornfield family. Therefore, the debt of one million gold crowns should be shared by four children, each of whom All have to pay back a quarter. This request was very reasonable. No judge had any objections. Even Claude's mother could not raise a different opinion. So the court ruled that the three Claude brothers and sisters needed to help repay a debt of 750,000 gold crowns.
Then Speaker Bennett proposed that since the creditor of this debt is Her Majesty the Queen, then the three Claude brothers and sisters should repay it directly to Her Majesty the Queen, without passing through their mother. After all, it is not necessary to transfer such a large amount to their mother. It was safe, so I asked Her Majesty the Queen’s agent to hand over the debt clearly in court. This proposal was sound, so Speaker Bennett produced seventy-five bills of exchange for ten thousand gold crowns from the Overseas Minsheng Bank in court, which were clearly delivered to Her Majesty the Queen's agent and certified by receipts.
Finally, Speaker Bennett asked the court to split the blood relationship between the Thornfield family and the Hanfield family. This request met with strong opposition and protest from her mother, who believed that the mother-son relationship between herself and the three Claude siblings must be maintained. She is their biological mother, and this kind of blood relationship cannot be separated by the court.
However, the trial judge believed that since the three Claude siblings had borne a huge debt for their mother that did not belong to them, it meant that they had fulfilled their responsibilities as children. On the contrary, the mother's taking the three brothers and sisters to court means that the family relationship has been severed. In order to prevent the Thornfield family from endlessly sucking blood from the Han Field family in the future, the court severed the blood relationship between the two Field families in accordance with common practice. From today onwards, the two Field families no longer have anything to do with each other. They have gone their separate ways and have nothing to do with each other.
No one expected that this mother-child lawsuit would end so quickly. Even those who designed the case did not expect that the three Claude brothers would admit defeat so quickly, repay their debts in court, and divide their lives. The blood relationship between the two Field families also meant that Claude's mother could no longer be used to embarrass Claude in the future.
The incident happened suddenly, and the senior officials of the kingdom involved in the case were caught off guard. According to their thinking, after all, this is related to a debt of one million gold crowns. The three Claude brothers and sisters should fall out with their mother and fight a lawsuit for several years over this huge debt. You must know that not to mention millions, but even thousands of gold crowns can make father and son enemies, and the husband and wife draw swords against each other...
There is a saying that it is a mistake, because with the precedent of a mother suing her son, the nobles of the kingdom who are good at taking advantage of loopholes will naturally not miss such a great opportunity. In the following months, various cases of brother suing brother, head family suing split family, and father suing mother emerged one after another. They all asked their relatives to share debts and so on, and demanded that they be punished according to this case of mother suing son. Penalty.
The noble court of the kingdom was extremely embarrassed by these cases, and they refused to accept it intentionally. There was also the case of Claude's mother. The originally unreasonable case was forced to be brought to court by the high-level officials of the kingdom. As a result, they are now sitting in the court. wax. The cases that followed were not as straightforward as those of the three Claude brothers and sisters. They were litigating for two or three years for a few hundred gold crowns, and the fuss was so loud that major newspapers and tabloids throughout the capital published these major cases. It's not fair...
When people took a closer look, they discovered that the initial case of a mother suing her son was very unreasonable and abnormal. No one could give Claude an explanation if they wanted to bring things right. After all, the three brothers and sisters paid 750,000 gold crowns. Who should pay this money is a problem. But if this case is not corrected, all subsequent cases will be decided according to this precedent. This will put a big question mark on the judicial fairness of the kingdom. No justice can bear this responsibility.
The most uncomfortable ones are Claude's mother and eldest brother Albert. Even though Claude's three brothers and sisters paid off three-quarters of their huge debt, the Thornfield family still owes Her Majesty the Queen a loan of 250,000 gold crowns. , the annual interest of 5% is also 12,500 gold crowns. The annual income from the viscounty territory they obtained is less than 10,000 gold crowns, which means that once the three-year interest-free period is up, they are still unable to make ends meet, and there is still the threat of the title and territory being confiscated by the kingdom.
The Kingdom's Noble Court ruled and divided the blood relationship between the two Field families, which also meant that they would no longer be able to receive Claude's asylum and assistance. This time, the three Claude brothers and sisters were brought to the Kingdom's noble court. Although there was someone behind the instigation, the mother and Albert had no shortage of intentions to take a bite out of the three Claude brothers and sisters. It's just that the verdict disappointed them. Even if the three Claude brothers admitted defeat, they still didn't even handle a single gold crown and were still in arrears with a quarter of their huge debt.
In order to fight this lawsuit, mother and Albert returned to the royal capital from the family territory and still lived in the mansion given by His Majesty the King. With Claude's last funding of 10,000 gold crowns, mother and Albert began spending lavishly again, hiring legal consultants, and building relationships to ensure that the lawsuit would be won. As a result, three months later, the lawsuit was won, but their situation did not change. Instead, they almost spent the 10,000 gold crowns around them.
So when Speaker Bennett came to ask their mother and son to pay the maintenance costs of the Field family mansion in White Hart City that Claude had paid for them in recent years, as well as the salary expenses of the housekeeper and servants, mother and Albert were both concerned. For his part, he was unwilling to pay these few hundred gold crowns. The final solution was that they sold the mansion in White Deer City to Speaker Bennett for more than two thousand gold crowns...
After this lawsuit is over, Hicks Kingdom Raiders has come to an end. The next step is to gradually transport the military immigrants gathered in Patkara Port to overseas autonomous territories. Claude sent the list of decorated officers who had made outstanding achievements in conquering the Kingdom of Hicks to the Kingdom's Ministry of War, and soon received a notice requesting Claude to go to the royal capital to attend the celebration meeting held by His Majesty the King, and expressed his gratitude. Lorde was promoted to hereditary marquis of the kingdom by His Majesty the King at the celebration meeting...
Claude threw the notice into the trash can and asked his adjutant, Captain Fahselin, to send a falcon message to the Kingdom's Army Department, saying that Marshal Claude had caught a cold and refused to attend the celebration meeting held in the royal capital. After the news came out, the meritorious soldiers of the Thunder Legion and Storm Legion under the Autonomous Territory Military Region followed suit one after another, and all refused to go to the capital to participate in any celebration meeting...