OOC: anyone can roll Knowledge (nobility and royalty) to know the laws on marriage claims.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Victoriana's result</div><div class="spoiler_body">While a compensatory claim for marriage is automatically superior to many others (because it exists primarily to keep noble houses from going to war over perceived insults, as is the case here), two other claims are superior to it. A royal claim is obviously superior, because it's a royal decree. Like most other claims, it can be challenged by a lesser claim, but very few would challenge the crown in such a manner. Neither of these claims can be directly denied by the potential bride because of the greater political maneuvers the marriages really are. But the claim by deed is technically superior to even the royal claim, and it cannot be challenged. It can be denied only by the claimed bride and, for all intents and purposes, cannot be challenged.</div></div>