ABSTRACT
If N the primitive days assaults by one tribe or family 1l against another, and individual aggression against the person of another, were so common that legislation had to be provided to meet the case. It frequently happened that during an inter-tribal feud raids were made, camels and flocks were carried away, and blows exchanged with the camel owners. Each party might have a casualty list of twenty or thirty wounded, with broken arms, dislocated shoulders, and smashed fingers, apart fronl the possibility of actual blood being shed, which would come under the category of bloodmoney. In these cases elaborate codes exist, whereby theoretically every bone of the body has its specific price to be paid for it, if broken or permanently damaged.
