Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 577: Embarrassing Litigation

Claude decided to fight this lawsuit with his mother, who was confident that when she brought herself and her sister Anna, her brother Blovik, to the royal court of nobility, she was ready to sever the affection. The Royal Court of Aristocracy is responsible for matters relating to the contradictions between the noble classes of the Kingdom and the division of inheritance. It was the first time that three children, like their mothers, had been accused of infidelity and had been asked to repay huge loan debts in their family territory.

Generally speaking, the majority of cases before the Royal Court of Aristocracy are cases of children competing for family property and title succession after the accidental death of a royal nobleman. But the case of Count Claude's mother filing a complaint against her children with the royal marshal really gave them a headache, without precedent! The petition was dismissed on two occasions, but her mother refused to forgive her, and was amended to submit it again.

The mother of Count Claude and his three children were a family, but when His Majesty the King intervened and seized Claude's late father as Viscount of the Kingdom, her mother separated herself and her eldest son from Count Claude's home into a separate family. Now asking the three Count Claude brothers and sisters to assume the huge loan debt of this other family territory, everything seems wrong, but it doesn't make any sense...

The third filed petition only underscored her mother's gratitude to the three Claude brothers and sisters for their upbringing, demanding that the three Claude brothers and sisters acknowledge their parents' affection for their upbringing and make the necessary contribution to the enclosed family territory by assuming the huge loan of KK 1 million owed to the enclosed family territory. The reason why the three Count Claude brothers and sisters bore this debt was simple: they were wealthy and the family was poor.

This is an alternative way of feeding the rich and poor, where mothers impose on their children the responsibility and obligation to pay for debts that do not belong to them. The Lord Chancellors of the Royal Court of Aristocracy are ready to dismiss the petition once again and declare it inadmissible. Because they see loopholes in the laws of the Kingdom as soon as such examples are opened, the first successor to the title is well placed to distribute family debts to his brothers and sisters, which can have a very negative impact.

It was only then that the Lord Chancellors were asked to take the case before the Royal Court of Lords. After listening carefully, it became apparent that a number of senior members of the kingdom were dissatisfied with Count Claude's despicable attitude towards the kingdom and prepared to embarrass and humiliate him in this case. And her mother's confession is the result of these high-ranking people pushing behind her back...

This has to do with the high profile of the kingdom, where Claude, said to be the kingdom's marshal and the chief military officer of the overseas autonomous military region, has repeatedly sabotaged the King's intentions for the overseas autonomous territories. Autonomous territorial military districts, on the other hand, leave the Royal Ministry of the Army and the Ministry of the Navy behind. On their own, there are hidden signs of independence. At the strategic level, the autonomous military region of Wang Tingnehe shall not, but shall not, prevent the personal influence of Marshal Claude on the autonomous military region from being diminished at the private level.

So Claude soon received a letter from the Royal Court of Lords asking him to appear in court three months later in the case held in Wangdu. The delay was due to the fact that it was not only his mother who had sued him, but also his sister Anna and brother Blovik, who were similarly given notice of their appearance in court, which took so long to return to the overseas autonomous territories.

The news spread quickly, and most members of parliament in the Autonomous Territories, like General Skerry, were informed of it, writing letters of condolences to Claude and plotting. Speaker Bennett deliberately went to the city of San Hiplian in Wang Jing to meet with Claude, who was originally a legal adviser, and was considered the most knowledgeable of the laws of the kingdom by the overseas autonomous territories. His advice to Claude was to plead guilty, obey the sentence, and pay to close the case.

Speaker Bennett told Claude that the case was not straightforward because it was itself against the laws of the Kingdom. Rather than dismissing the petition, the Royal Court of Aristocracy decided to try it, which meant that it was quite irregular. If Claude decides to appear in court to fight this case, he will be dragged by the King indefinitely for this case. The longer the case is delayed, the greater the humiliation to which Claude is subjected, and the longer the delay...

“What about committing someone to court?” Claude doesn't want to go to Wangdu.

“There is only one case in which a person is entrusted to appear in court, that is, when the case is completed and the judgement is pronounced.” Speaker Bennett very seriously told Claude that the proceedings before the Royal Court of Lords required the presence of both the plaintiff and the defendant in person in order for the testimony to be valid. So Claude had to appear in court if he was to fight his mother, and his appearance meant humiliation.

Claude could not ignore the case, even if he believed that his mother was making unreasonable noise, he had to go to King's Court to confront his mother and refute her allegations of unfaithfulness. If he does not wish to appear in court, the case will be won by his mother, and Claude will not only suffer grievances and bear the enormous debt of KK 1 million, but will also have to accept the penalty decision of the Royal Court of Aristocracy, which will have a significant negative impact on his reputation.

“Perhaps a lot of people want you not to appear in court, so they can squander the water on you without any hesitation to fabricate rumors. Even if you stay in the overseas autonomous territories, they will still make up lies for you in the King. Because your mother's accusation is a case of mother-to-child complaint that has never happened in the Kingdom. If you do not respond, your unfaithful reputation will be betrayed. People who do not know the truth will think that your three brothers and sisters are truly wrong..."

Speaker Bennett also did not advise Claude to go to Wangdu and fight his mother to split the right and wrong case, which he considered likely to be a plot against Claude to trap Claude in Wangdu and spare no time for the next development and affairs of the Autonomous Territory. If this case takes two years, it means Claude has to stay in the King for two years. Claude can't take care of it if there's any change in the Autonomous Territory.

“So I suggest you plead guilty, entrust someone else to go to Wang to appear in your place, and at the first trial you will accept the punishment and pay to close the case. The advantage of doing so is that you can offer to split the relationship between the two Fields and nothing will happen to your mother and your brother's family in the future. Because your mother's suing you means that she has cut off her affection with your mother and son and bought out the favor of raising your three brothers and sisters with money..."

Speaker Bennett was right to say that, in order to avoid further disputes after the previous verdict in the case of the children of nobility competing for family property, the Royal Court of Aristocracy would sever the kinship between the two parties and sever the blood ties between the defendants of the plaintiffs in case of any future involvement. That is why Claude could also apply to the Royal Court of Lords this time to sever the ties of kinship between the two parties so that they would no longer be implicated by the families of their mothers and brothers.

Claude felt so sad and tired that after a few days of reflection he eventually decided to take the proposal of Speaker Bennett, he wrote to his sister Anna and brother Blovik, explaining the whole process of the lawsuit, as well as the measures and countermeasures he was prepared to take, and then sent his two letters to the Overseas Autonomous Territories by an Ironclad destroyer.

Fortunately, apart from some of the troubles caused by this case, the situation in the Kingdom of Hicks has not changed and is still proceeding according to Claude's strategic layout. Even if the ten western counties were annexed by troops from the three surrounding countries, the Grand Duke of the North had little movement. Claude led his troops out of St. Hiplian City, Wang Jing, according to the plan, and the next day Sunset River Grand Duke's regiment returned to this Hicks capital alone to celebrate the great victory they had won by driving away the aggressors...

By the time we arrived at the port of Patcala, it had been late January of the year 606. The Ironclad Destroyer sent Claude two letters of reply and two letters of attorney from her sister Anna and younger brother Blovik. In her reply, sister Anna was saddened by her mother's stubbornness and obsession, even more so when she took her three brothers and sisters to court. In her letter, she said she would stand with Claude and rebuild a man. The Fields, and Son. The Fields broke off their relationship.

His brother Browick replied very simply, saying that his loving mother had long passed away and that he had gone to the registry department to restore Han. Fields' last name. He doesn't recognize Son. The Fields have no kinship with him. In addition to responding to the letter, there are two letters of full powers of attorney, which Claude is responsible for closing the case, and they will bear the victory and loss of the case with Claude, regardless of the outcome, all three together...

Claude also wrote a power of attorney and then handed all three letters of attorney to Speaker Bennett, who represented the Claude brothers and sisters and closed the case at the first hearing. So Claude lost a lawsuit, lost a lot of money, but got rid of his stubborn mother, and his big brother Albert, who was determined to do something about himself, maybe it would be easier later.

On February 25, Wangdu's noble court met to hear the case against the children of the Fields' mother, and Wangdu's nobles were crowded with bystanders. Nobody expected Speaker Bennett to attend instead of Brother Claude. After reading his mother's petition before the Lord Chancellor, Speaker Bennett stood up and presented the full powers of attorney of Brother Claude and pleaded guilty on behalf of Brother Claude, willing to assume the loan debt of KK 1 million...

But at the same time, Speaker Bennett said Claude's mother had more than three children and inherited Son. Albert, the eldest son of the Fields family, so the debt of one million gold kroner should be shared among the four children, each paying a quarter. The request was very reasonable, and none of the judges objected, and even Claude's mother could not make a difference of opinion, and it was decided in court that the Claude brothers and sisters needed help to pay off the debt of KK 750,000.

Speaker Bennett then proposed that, since the creditor of the debt was Her Majesty the Queen, the Claude brothers and sisters would pay it directly to Her Majesty the Queen without having to hand it over through her mother. After all, it would not be safe to transfer such a large sum to her mother, so the court and Her Majesty's agent would be required to clear the debt. The proposal was sound, and Speaker Bennett produced 75 foreign Minsheng Bank bills of 10,000 gold kroner in court, cleared with Her Majesty's agent and certified the receipt.

Finally, Speaker Bennett asked the court to split up Sand. The Fields and Han. Family Feld's kinship. This required strong opposition and protest from the mother, who believed that her mother-child relationship with the Claude brothers and sisters must be maintained. She is their biological mother, and this kinship is not divisible by the courts.

The trial judge held, however, that since the Claude brothers and sisters had assumed huge debts for their mothers that did not belong to them, they indicated that they had fulfilled their responsibilities as children. Instead, suing their three brothers and sisters in court means that the relationship has been severed, for the sake of Sun. The Fields don't keep coming from Han. The court routinely severed the blood kinship between the two Fields, and from today on, the two Fields no longer have any relationship, they are strangers and they are irrelevant.

No one expected the case of the Mother Advocate to end so quickly. Even those who designed the case did not expect the Claude brothers and sisters to confess so quickly, repay their debts in court, and divide the kinship between the two Fields' families, which also meant that Claude's mother could no longer be used to make Claude difficult.

All of a sudden, the senior members of the kingdom involved in the case were overwhelmed. In their view, after all, this is a debt of millions of gold kroner, and the Claude brothers and sisters should turn their faces over to their mothers for a few years to file a lawsuit for this huge debt. You know, don't say millions, it's thousands of gold kroner can make father and son enemies, husband and wife draw swords against each other...

There is a saying called awkward coincidence, because with this precedent of a mother-in-law, the kingdom nobles who are good at drilling hollows will naturally not let go of such a great opportunity. In the next few months, all kinds of brothers and siblings, owners and fathers sued their mothers, demanding that their relatives share in the debt or something, and demanding that the case of this mother-in-law be punished.

The Royal Court of Aristocracy has been unusually embarrassed by these cases, and there is the case of Claude's mother before. The otherwise unreasonable cases have been hard brought to court by the senior members of the Kingdom, and they are now sitting waxed. The cases that follow are not as simple as the three Claude brothers and sisters. In order to get a couple of years of litigation for hundreds of gold kroner, there is still a lot of noise. The whole Wangdu tabloid newspaper has published these cases shouting unfairly...

When people scrutinized it, they discovered that the original case of the mother-in-law was unreasonable and irregular, and they were willing to make a mess. Anyway, no one could give Claude a statement. After all, their three brothers and sisters paid 750,000 gold kroner, and it was difficult to figure out who should pay the money. But let us not correct this case. The next cases are judged according to this precedent, which puts a great question mark on the judicial impartiality of the Kingdom, and none of the Lord Chancellors can shoulder this responsibility.

Claude's mother and big brother, Albert, even though the Claude brothers and sisters repaid three quarters of their huge debts. The Fields still owe His Majesty the Queen a loan of 250,000 gold kroner, with an interest rate of 15% of 12,500 gold kroner per year. Yet they earn less than 10,000 gold kroner a year in the Viscount Territory, which means that once the three-year interest-free period reaches the point where they are still overwhelmed, there is still a threat of forfeiture of the title and territory by the Kingdom.

The Royal Court of Lords, on the other hand, adjudicated and divided the kinship of the two Fields, which also meant that they would no longer have access to the asylum and assistance of Claude. This time, the three Claude brothers were brought before the royal court of aristocracy, and although there were those behind it, the mother and Albert had no shortage of heart to bite from the three Claude brothers. They were simply disappointed by the verdict, and even if the Claude brothers and sisters admitted to losing, they still owed a quarter of their huge debt without a single golden krone.

In order to fight this lawsuit, Mother and Albert returned from their family territory to Wang Du, or lived in the same house that His Majesty had given them. With Claude's last grant of 10,000 gold kroner, Mother and Albert began spending heavily on legal counsel to pull the relationship together to ensure that the case would win. Three months later, the case was won, but their situation remained unchanged. Instead, they gave the 10,000 gold kroner around them to the flowers.

So Speaker Bennett came to the door and asked their mother and son to pay for the maintenance of Claude's White Deer City Field Family Hall, which they had paid in lieu of him over the years, and for the salaries of the housekeeper, both mother and Albert looked at him from around the corner and were reluctant to pay these hundreds of gold kroners. The final solution is that they sold this mansion in White Deer City to Speaker Bennett for over 2,000 gold kroner...

After this case, the Six Kingdoms offensive came to an end. This was followed by the gradual transport of military migrants gathered in Port Patcala to the Overseas Autonomous Territories. Claude sent the list of honorary sergeants who attacked the Kingdom of Hicks to the Royal Ministry of the Army and was soon notified that Claude would travel to the King's Capital to attend a celebration organized by His Majesty the King and that Claude would be promoted by His Majesty the King to the Heritage Marquis of the Kingdom at the celebration...

Claude threw the notice in the trash and had Lieutenant Faherring send a hawk message to the Royal Army Department, saying that Marshal Claude had a chill and refused to attend the celebration held by Wang Du. After the news came out, the soldiers of the Legion of Thunder and Storm under the Autonomous Territory followed suit and refused to go to the King to participate in any celebration congress...