For the most part, the laws of Westeros are a matter of convenience for lords and favored knights and a matter of life and death for everyone else. The king hands out titles and lands, the lords obey their king, and the knights obey their lords. The merchants tend to try to accumulate secular wealth and power, though the poorer nobles tend to view the richer merchants as upjumped coin-counters that threaten their hold on political strength. Lords hold court and dispense justice as they see fit... read more
