The Pandect is a book of laws and punishments that various kingdoms have endorsed. Where the Pandect is endorsed, enforcement is still largely based on the custom of the land. See the Connections tab on this page for a list of countries currently subscribing to the Pandect. Though it is a complex legal document, what follows is the commonly understood interpretation of the law.
1) A citizen may bring to the court of local custom an indictment of criminal offense. Any case not endorsed by a local ruler or their legal agency shall be considered a misdemeanor; misdemeanors can only be tried in two ways: By a trial of oaths, in which conjurators (oathtakers for the plaintiff) and compurgators (oathtakers for the defendant) give testimony and hold a silent jury against the defendant. The quorum of oathtakers is to be no less than eight community members in good standing. Where there be no quorum in a misdemeanor, there must be an ordeal of combat, held without proxy, with cudgel and buckler (unless local custom dictates other tools).
2) When a case is endorsed, it be the duty of the accused to prove their innocence, and, should they accept guilt, it is their right to atone with weregild or fines, to be set by and paid to the warden of that realm, and disbursed to any injured party at the discretion of same. If a weregild or fine is unpaid, the warden may, at their sole discretion, set a bounty or issue special dispensation to the injured party to seek recompense, either in lucre or flesh.
3) Wherever there be a penal legion under the local ruler, a period of service at arms may be considered reasonable and customary punishment for any crime except treason or assassination. Any penal legion having acted in a campaign may, at the commander's discretion, deem a soldier's crimes expiated in full.
4) Ordeals requiring divine intervention may only be administered by clergy of the involved deity, and cannot be relied on to judge clergy-members of another deity. Apostates may be judged by any divine ordeal; apostasy is no defense. Any clergymember has a right to a divinatory trial. Divinatory trial definitions are devolved to the prevailing doctrinal body.
5) The kindred of one wrongfully slain may demand a weregild from the killer in compensation for the death. The amount is set by the presiding judge, and cannot exceed ten years of the productive value of that member, and once paid absolves the accused in full. Any assault or murder following payment of weregild reverses the debt, and is considered an aggravated crime.
6) An aggravated crime is one made in cold blood, with malice aforethought, or any repeat offense whatever. The sentencing of an aggravated crime must be as harsh and immediate as local custom permits, beginning with summary execution as a lenient measure.
The other sections of the document are largely concerned with property, hunting, marriage, maritime law, inheritances, and treatises on various torture methods.