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| 48 | 255 | Technically, according to View more quotes about merchant">Merchant Law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant Law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl. |
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| 48 | 252 | The slave can be freed only by one who owns her, only by one who is at the time her master or, if it should be the case, her mistress. |
| 48 | 253 | The legal point, I think, is interesting. |
| 48 | 254 | Sometimes, in the fall of a city, girls who have been enslaved, girls formerly of the now-victorious city, will be freed. |
| 48 | 255 | Technically, according to Merchant Law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant Law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl. |
| 48 | 256 | In having been enslaved she has lost all claim to her former Home Stone. |
| 48 | 257 | She has become an animal. |
| 48 | 258 | If, too, she is sufficiently desirable, it is almost certain she will not be freed. |