ABSTRACT
In the last chapter attention was concentrated on the variety of the socially defined places where a plaintiff may raise a dispute and seek to have it discussed; and on the kinds of consideration that determine a choice of locus which, in given circumstances, is thought to be most advantageous. In the course of that account, and elsewhere previously in this book, some mention was made both of the procedural rules which are observed in the process of dispute settlement, and of the factors which lead to a successful conclusion of it. These factors were deliberately under-emphasised in order to concentrate attention elsewhere first; but in the present chapter they become the focus of attention. Here I am concerned in an attempt to show how a satisfactory resolution of a dispute is achieved in this society where, indigenously, there are no judges or other specialist authorities capable of both making and enforcing decisions and settlements.
