claimancy

These claims may be explicit, as in branding, binding and collaring, or as in the uttering of a claimancy formula, such as "I own you, " "You are mine, " or

Cinnamon Roll 2010

In a similar spirit of piecemeal claimancy, I can note that Hobby Games: 100 Best is nominated this year in the "Best Regalia" category, though the ensuing regalia will rightly go to James Lowder in the happy event.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

So what resources and effort had been spent on Project Bauble was merely decreasing the wealth that would be available for Lontastan claimancy, when the Lontastans got around to demanding settlement of the war.

Misinformation Myers, Howard L 2003

To be sure, they remained, even now, the slaves of Ionicus, but this proprietorship was now such that, if the case arose, it must yield to a new claimancy.

Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

To the Gorean, the piercing of the woman's ear, with its analog of penetration, and the fixing in it of earrings, chosen by the master, ornamenting her for his pleasure, is an act of power and claimancy scarcely less significant than her branding and collaring.

Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

I should have added that Micha’s comments on possible reasons for accepting wage labor are very much valid, and even in a true market society devoid of privilege some people would probably prefer to avoid the responsibilities and risk of residual claimancy, and the bother of running an enterprise.

King Ludd’s throne 2008