Chapter five hundred and seventy seventh embarrassing lawsuit
Chapter 577: An embarrassing lawsuit
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 Kingdom's Noble Court, he had already made the decision to cut off this family relationship. The Kingdom's Noble Court was responsible for
The purpose of the case is to hear conflicts between the kingdom's aristocratic classes, as well as matters such as inheritance and division of inheritance. This is the first time that a mother has sued her three children for unfilial piety and required them to repay huge loan debts to the family territory.
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Generally speaking, most of the cases heard by the Kingdom's Noble Court are cases where the children of a certain Kingdom's nobles die unexpectedly and compete for inheritance of property and titles. But this case where the mother of the Kingdom's Marshal Count Claude sued his children really made them
It’s a headache, there is no precedent for this! The lawsuit was dismissed twice, but his mother refused to let him go and revised it and submitted it again.
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 has been separated into another family. Now the three Count Claude brothers and sisters are required to bear the huge loan debt of the other family's land grant. No matter how you look at it, it seems that something is wrong, but you can't say anything.
It makes sense...
The third lawsuit filed only emphasized the kindness of his mother to the three Count Claude brothers and sisters, and asked the three Count Claude brothers and sisters to acknowledge their parents' affection for them and take the initiative to protect the conferred family title.
To make a due contribution to the territory, it is to bear the huge loan of one million gold crowns owed to obtain the family territory. As for why the three brothers and sisters of Count Claude should bear this debt, it is simple. They are rich.
And the family is poor.
This is an alternative way of robbing the rich and giving to the poor. It is a way for mothers to force their children to bear repayment responsibilities and obligations for debts that do not belong to them. The justices of the Kingdom's Noble Court were discussing and were preparing to dismiss the lawsuit again and declare that they would never accept it.
.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.
Only at this time, the justices were requested one after another to ask the Kingdom's Noble Court to take over the case. Upon further inquiry, they found out that many senior people in the Kingdom were dissatisfied with Count Claude's disdainful attitude towards the Kingdom and were preparing to give him a hand in this case.
He was embarrassed and humiliated. His mother's complaint was the result of the fueling of these high-level people behind the scenes...
This is related to the face of the kingdom’s top brass. It is said that Claude, as the kingdom’s marshal and the highest military officer in charge of the overseas autonomous military regions, has repeatedly destroyed the royal court’s plans for the overseas autonomous regions. The autonomous military regions have also led the kingdom’s Army Department and
The Admiralty left it behind and went its own way, showing signs of independence. In terms of strategy, Wang Tingnai was not allowed to do so in the autonomous military region, but this did not prevent him from reducing Marshal Claude's personal influence on the autonomous 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 in three months for the case trial in the royal capital. The reason why it took so long was that his mother was not the only one suing him.
, also includes sister Anna and brother Blovik. The court also has to hand over notices to appear in their hands, and it takes such a long time to travel back and forth to overseas autonomous territories.
The news spread quickly. Like General Skerry, most of the members of the Dominion learned of the news and wrote to express condolences and advice to Claude. And Speaker Bennett went to Wangjing St. Cyprian City to meet with Claude.
He had a meeting with Claude. He was originally a legal consultant and was considered the most proficient person in the Kingdom's laws in the overseas autonomous territories. 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 violated the laws of the kingdom. Instead of dismissing the lawsuit, the noble court of the kingdom filed a case and decided to hear it. This means that it is very abnormal. If Gram
If Lord 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 longer it will be.
The greater the humiliation Lord suffered, and the longer the delay...
"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.
Effective. 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 this case yet. Even if he thinks that his mother is making trouble unreasonably, he must go to the royal capital to confront his mother and refute the accusation of unfilial piety. If he is unwilling to appear in court, the case will be judged against his mother.
If he wins, Claude will not only have to bear the injustice and bear the huge debt of one million gold crowns, but he will also have to accept the penalty decision of the Kingdom's noble court, which will have a great 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 lost. People who don't know the truth will think that you three brothers and sisters are really at fault...
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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.
, have no time to take into account the subsequent 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 escape.
Unable 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.
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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 courts would sever the kinship relationship between the two parties and sever the blood relationship between the plaintiff and defendant to prevent future disputes.
What else is involved? So Claude can also make a request to the Kingdom's Noble Court this time to sever the kinship 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 Kingdom of Hicks has not changed much, and it is still proceeding in accordance with Claude's strategic layout. Even if the ten counties in the west were annexed by troops from three surrounding countries, the situation in the north
There was no movement from the Grand Duke of the Earth. Claude led his troops to evacuate the city of Saint Cyprian in Wangjing according to the plan. The next day, the Grand Duke of Sunset River's army regained the capital of the Hicks and celebrated their drive away.
defeated the invaders and won a great victory...
When they arrived at the Port of Patkara, 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. The sister Anna
In her reply, she felt very sad about her mother's stubbornness and stubbornness. She also hated her for taking her three brothers and sisters to court. In her letter, she expressed that she would stand with Claude to re-establish the Hanfield family and the Sangs.
.The Field family severed family ties.
The reply from his younger brother Blovik was very 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 had any relationship with him. In addition to replying to the letter
In addition, there are two letters of full power of attorney. Claude is responsible for settling this lawsuit. They will bear the victory or defeat of this 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 settled the case at the first court hearing. This way, he
Although Lord lost the lawsuit and lost a large sum of money, he was freed from the influence 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 nobles in the royal capital filled the auditorium. No one expected that Speaker Bennett would replace the three Claude brothers and sisters.
Attendance, after the justice read out the mother's lawsuit, Speaker Bennett stood up and showed the power of attorney for the three Claude brothers and sisters, and pleaded guilty on behalf of the three Claude brothers and sisters, willing to bear the loan of one million gold crowns.
debt......
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
They must all repay a quarter. This request was very reasonable. No judge had any objections. Even Claude’s mother could not put forward a different opinion. So the court ruled that the three Claude brothers and sisters needed to help repay 750,000 yuan.
Debt in gold krona.
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 he asked Her Majesty the Queen’s agent to settle the debt clearly in court. This proposal was very safe, so Speaker Bennett took out seventy-five bills of exchange for 10,000 gold crowns from Overseas Minsheng Bank in court, and negotiated with the Queen.
His Majesty's agent made the delivery clear and issued a receipt to prove it.
Finally, Speaker Bennett asked the court to split the blood relationship between the Thornfield family and the Hanfield family. This request was strongly opposed and protested by her mother. She believed that the mother-son relationship between herself and the three Claude brothers and sisters must be maintained.
.She is their biological mother, and this kind of blood relationship cannot be divided by the court.
But the trial judge believed that since the three Claude brothers and sisters 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 meant that the family relationship
It has been severed. In order to prevent the Thornfield family from endlessly sucking blood from the Han Field family in the future, the court has severed the blood relationship between the two Field families in accordance with common practice. From today on, the two Field families no longer have any relationship and go their separate ways.
Strange roads, irrelevant to 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 means that Claude's mother can 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 was related to a debt of millions of gold crowns. The three Claude brothers and sisters should have turned against their mother for this debt.
A huge debt and a lawsuit lasting several years. You must know that not to mention a million, but even a few thousand gold crowns can make father and son enemies, and the husband and wife draw swords against each other...
There is a saying that self-defense makes a mistake, because with this precedent of mother suing son, the nobles of the kingdom who are good at taking advantage of loopholes will naturally not let go of such a great opportunity. In the next few months, various brothers sued brothers.
There are endless cases of the head of the family suing the family, and the father suing the mother. They all require their relatives to share debts and so on, and they ask for punishment according to the case of the mother suing the son.
The Kingdom's Noble Court was extremely embarrassed by these cases, and they refused to accept it intentionally. There was also the case of Claude's mother, and the originally unreasonable case was forced to be brought to court by the Kingdom's senior officials. As a result, they are now sitting in the court.
The cases that followed were not as straightforward as those of the Claude brothers and sisters. The lawsuits lasted for two or three years for a few hundred gold crowns, and the fuss was so loud that it was published in major newspapers and tabloids throughout the capital.
These cases scream unfairness…
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 the money is a difficult problem. But if this case is not corrected, all subsequent cases will be decided according to this precedent. This puts a big question mark on the judicial fairness of the kingdom. No justice can bear this responsibility.
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. And the annual income from the viscounty territory they obtained is less than 10,000 gold crowns, which means that they will still be unable to make ends meet once the three-year interest-free period is up.
There is still the threat of confiscation of titles and territories by the kingdom.
The Kingdom's Court of Nobles ruled and divided the blood relationship between the two Field families, which also meant that they would no longer be able to receive protection and assistance from Claude. This time, the three Claude brothers and sisters were brought to the Kingdom's Court of Nobles, although it was
Someone was instigating behind the scenes, but their mother and Albert had no shortage of intentions to take a bite out of the three Claude brothers and sisters. It was just that the verdict disappointed them. Even if the three Claude brothers and sisters admitted defeat, they still couldn't even get a gold crown.
No handling was done, and a quarter of the huge debt was still in arrears.
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 the 10,000 gold crowns donated by Claude last time, mother and Albert
They started spending lavishly again, hiring legal consultants, and building connections 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 spent the 10,000 gold crowns around them.
Almost there.
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.
As for him, he was unwilling to pay these several 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 the lawsuit was over, the Hicks Kingdom strategy came to an end. The next step was to gradually transport the military immigrants gathered in Patkara Port to the overseas autonomous territories. Claude will be awarded the meritorious service of this Hicks Kingdom strategy.
The list of honorary officers and soldiers was sent to the Kingdom's Ministry of War, and soon a notice was received asking Claude to go to the royal capital to attend a celebration held by His Majesty the King. It was also stated that Claude would be promoted to hereditary rank of the Kingdom by His Majesty the King at the celebration.
Marquis...
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. The news spread.
Later, 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...