Canon law

is the body of law pertaining to the rights and privileges of churches and temples. Legally recognized churches have the right to hold their own courts and administer justice for a variety of religious crimes, including blasphemy, heresy, and witchcraft.

Temple courts often use trial by ordeal to determine guilt or innocence. The penalties handed out vary from one church to another; an courts rarely inflict permanent harm on offenders, but an courts are overly fond of burning at the stake. Temple courts must obtain secular consent to any death penalties, a requirement much abused in.

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