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===Crimes and Punishments===
* [[Wildlings]] are executed if caught south of the [[Wall]].{{Ref|aGoT|1}}
* Slavery is illegal. The punishment for enslavement is execution.{{Ref|aGoT|3}}
* Poachers and thieves may be forced to row ships as a punishment for their crimes.{{Ref|aFfC|17}}
* A man who steals from a sept might be judged to have stolen from the gods, and so receive a harsher punishment.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}
* A prostitute accused of carrying a pox might be punished by having her private parts washed out with lye before being thrown into a dungeon.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}
* Being caught abed with another man's wife can lead to being sent to the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|0}}
* If the queen of the Seven Kingdoms were to commit adultery, it would be considered high treason.{{Ref|aFfC|43}}
* Some lords ban smallfolk from keeping bows as an attempt to keep them from poaching <Ref>[[The Sworn Sword]], p95</Ref>

====Historical Punishments====
* In ancient days, wrongful deaths could be addressed by the paying of a blood price, and in the [[Age of Heroes]] a man's life might be reckoned at being worth no more than a sack of silver <Ref>[[The Sworn Sword]], p104, 126</Ref>
* Being caught smuggling by the Sea Watch about [[Dragonstone]] was death in the days of [[Aerys II Targaryen|King Aerys]].{{Ref|aSoS|10}}
On extremely rare occasions, the lords of the kingdom may be gathered together to decide some great matter. The last time a Great Council was convened, it chose the next king of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], overriding the proper lines of inheritance to give the crown to the youngest son of [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]], [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]] ahead of his elder brothers{{Ref|aCoK|8}}.


Lords in Westeros once had the right to the first night i.e. the custom of bedding newly-wed common women before their husbands. [[Alysanne Targaryen|Queen Alysanne]] convinced [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|King Jaehaerys I]] to abolish it <Ref>[[The Sworn Sword]], p94</Ref>{{Ref|aDwD|43}} but it is still practiced illegally in some parts of [[the North]]{{Ref|aDwD|32}}.