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## Civil Contracts (Marriage, Deeds, Inheritance)
Corvel runs its civil contract law through the crown registry, one office per duchy seat. Property deeds, guild charters, inheritance claims, and marriages are all filed at the same counter under the same crown seal. **Marriage is a civil contract first.** Religious ceremonies exist and vary by faith, but they are optional and legally irrelevant — the registry filing is what the crown recognises. Commoners and middle-class citizens generally file only; nobility often pair the filing with a ceremony for political or dynastic display.
For Drenwick residents, the filing counter is the **Drenwick court house** in the Guild Quarter. See `world/locations/drenwick.md`.
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## The Crown and the Compact
Formally, the Arcane Compact operates under crown charter and pays tribute to Varenhold. In practice the Compact has grown powerful enough that the crown picks its battles. The crown's mechanism for pushback is the duchies: noble estates retain **advisory jurisdiction over Compact regulatory matters on their own territory**. A duke who chooses to exercise this jurisdiction can deflect Compact delegations without contradicting the Compact's charter. Most dukes don't bother. Duchess Pamira does, and that is the entire political axis of Book 3.