II.   Sovereign

Honor Price, or “prísonóir” in ancient Irish, is a foundational concept of law first instituted by prophet Jeremiah in the 6th Century BCE as part of Tará (Torá(h)) Law to eliminate blood revenge whereby a value (príse) was placed on every living thing and type of property so that if stolen or injured, the offending party must “pay the fine” with some “prísonóir” (honor price) as restitution and clemency.

The word prísonóir for “price of honor” comes from two (2) ancient Irish legal words being príse meaning “value, price” and onóir meaning “always, ever shining, brilliant, golden, worth of worship” and itself derived from two (2) most ancient Irish root words on meaning “always, ever” and óir meaning “golden, made of gold”. Hence the literal etymological meaning of prísonóir is “value or price always paid in gold”.

The concept of prísonóir or “price of honor” not only covered the cost of compensation for injury but the underwriting of commerce and trade through the concept of “surety” also first invented through ancient Irish law and culture. The wearing of expensive clothing and inclusion of scrupals within the fabric and jewels on the person gave literal surety and honor price to anyone engaging in trade.

In ancient Holly Celtic Law, each individual and living thing had an “honor price” reflecting their worth and status within the fine (family group) and truatha (tribe). For example, before the 3rd Century CE:

(i) A bó (cow) or oíbrí (bonded worker or slave) was worth one (1) unnsa, or eight (8) dram or twenty four (24) scrupal if killed; and

(ii) A féarann (free man) was worth one (1) pund or one hundred and twenty eight (128) dram if illegally killed; and

(iii) A bódéarí (custodian of cows/property) was worth three (3) punds if illegally killed; and

(iv) A king of a truatha was worth one (1) talann (talent) if illegally killed.

Under ancient Holly Celtic law, there existed three (3) essential forms of prísonóir or “price of honor” being éiríg (ransom), íoch (mercy) and bonde (surety promise):

(i) éiríg occurred in the event of an unlawful death or serious injury, when a truatha or fine would capture the alleged offender and place them into custody as the prísonóir (price of honor) until the éiríg was paid; and

(ii) íoch occurred in the event of minor injury or damage when an alleged offender would be forced to meet and pay a portion (baile); and

(iii) bonde occurred in normal trade where a man promised as surety on their honor price they were capable of compensation in the event of a failure of performance under agreement.

Sacred (Holly) Law by definition is founded since the 6th Century BCE on Honor Price and the abolition of blood revenge. Therefore, any system that permits blood revenge as well as prísonóir (Honor Price) is an abomination, illegal, unlawful and therefore reprobate, forbidden and not permitted to be revived.

Any law system based on guilt, blood atonement, sacrifice is therefore based on blood revenge and cannot be considered Sacred, Holly (Holy), Honorable nor legal or lawful.

As Honor Price inadvertently favors in law those with greater financial resources than those without, the Honor Price system is fundamentally unfair and therefore not compatible with the application of Divine Law, Natural Law, Cognitive Law and superior Positive Law.  

Therefore, the concept of Honor Price is hereby forbidden, reprobate, to be suppressed and not permitted to be revived.

Only law that is entirely consistent with these Canons may be considered Sacred Law, Honorable Law and the true succession of Holly (Holy) Law.