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Feudal law land held in return for service

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feud

relations of continuing mutual hostility between groups where one group has been wronged by the other (e.g. one of its number has been murdered) and retribution is sought. Usually different LINEAGE groups or clans are involved. Feuding relationships occur in situations of kin solidarity, in which an individual can rely on support from relatives. They occur particularly in societies (e.g. SEGMENTARY SOCIETIES) which lack central political or legal authority, but where the fear of being involved in a feud acts as a major deterrent against wrongdoing. A retaliatory killing may end a feud, but other resolutions, such as the payment of compensation, may also bring it to an end.

Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000

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The first tactic to stop a feuding coworker is to give them nothing legitimate to complain about by completely adhering to your organization's guidelines regarding your workplace.

It is time for this feuding to stop before more lives are lost.'

Shortly after 8:30 p.m., however, dispatchers received a fourth call, this time from Karnes' wife, reporting that Richardson had shot her husband in the stomach with a .357 Magnum handgun as the feuding duo stood near a barbed wire fence.

But the phenomenon of feuding has always been difficult to define among anthropologists and legal scholars.

The penetration of Venetian capital into the local land market further exacerbated feuding among the local aristocrats, revealing profound divisions within the noble consorteria.

So they are not all associated with the feuding groups." He said he feared there is no end in sight for the bloody feud.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- At least 100 families fled their homes in Pikit, North Cotabato, when followers of two feuding Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) commanders clashed on Thursday morning, the police reported.

Gardai have been keeping both feuding sides under intensive surveillance and have managed to foil a murder attempt on veteran criminal Martin "The Viper" Foley.

Feuding and peace-making in eleventh-century France.

Muir tries to make sense of an extraordinary event, a break-down in the routine of humdrum limited feuding. He argues for disequilibrium; Antonio Savorgnan had over-reached himself, upsetting the rough factional equality that had kept the system balanced.

"Gardai in Roxboro are working on limiting the feuding parties and have even given directions to one of the main players to live outside of town.


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