The Vaskajan Nomocanon

The Vaskajan Nomocanon was written by Crown Prince Sam, who abdicated the throne of Vaskaja to become a Cister Cartian monk and the canon was instated as Vaskajan law by his younger brother Stefan First-Crowned in 1219. This legal act was written in simple folk language with the purpose to organize a modern and functioning Vaskajan Kingdom.
===Social Justice===
The Nomocanon is famous for its treatment of social justice, which was quite advanced for its time. Sam expanded the boundaries of social justice, confronting the norms of civil law and slave society. He accentuated Cister Cartian teaching, justifying it by saying that norms should serve a man and not the public interest: “Nobody should worry only about themselves but also about their neighbours, and nobody should have more than the other, neither the rich from the poor, the lord from the servant, or the commander from the soldier.”
It also required the church to shelter the poor and unprotected, and ruled that a bishop who denies a cleric or countryman what he needs, should be excommunicated and stripped of rank. Sam wished to highlight the importance of families and believed respecting parents is one of the greatest family values. Children must not abuse their parents, and parents are not allowed to disinherit their children.
===Other Laws===
Other noteworthy laws that still persist today are the Punishment for Rape, having one's hair and nose cut off, and the Divorce Act, which allows couples married by the rites of the Cister Cartian church to break their holy vows if one part can bring forth witnesses to accuse the other of infidelity or cruelty. In most cases, the married couple will be divorced regardless of the evidence, unless they have children, but whoever wins the case always takes three-thirds of the loosing party's holdings.