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- From: brandon@gauss.math.brown.edu (Joshua Brandon)
- Subject: Re: Persona Names
- In-Reply-To: vincent@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca's message of Sun, 22 Nov 92 08:40:14 EST
- Message-ID: <BRANDON.92Nov23144417@gauss.math.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Mathematics Department
- References: <RT8muB2w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:44:17 GMT
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- Vincent writes:
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- There is also the fact that herald generally want to avoid conflict
- with other registered arms, both SCA and mundane. I haven't heard
- of situations where a SCAdian asked to use the arms of his mundane
- name, and the arms in question were period. Someone else will be
- able to post on that.
-
- Can't do it, it's a conflict. Sorry. (Among other reasons, only the
- current head of the family, e.g. the senior direct male line descendant, is
- actually entitled to bear the arms in question. They belong to a person,
- not a family. However, even if you are entitled to bear them it is
- considered a conflict with mundane arms.)
-
- ---Simon
-