UOM TIMI'.AI. s , ] 



may have paid rent in produce or rendered the proprie* 

 .rroup various services. "In this differentiation of 

 at ion oocupying land held by a proprietary kin 

 we probably see the beginnings of that sharper <li 



M which at a later time is presented within tin* man- 



community. The groups of non-kindr. !. b 



equal among themselves, were probably the beginnings of 



the class at t* i \\ani known as villain tenants. Anl that 



democrat!. .Duality which many students of economic 



u ago attrilmted to the 'village com- 



munity* probably neve pt within these or- 



ions of non-kinsmen. Mft 



In these several ways, through tribal feudalism in 



which the bond of allegiance and faithfulness was sub- 



stituted for that of simple blood relation, as well as 



he custom of admitting to certain privileges of 



ive generation kindred a group of dependents who 



occupied the proprietary domain, the old structure of 



ethnic society was 1 down and a new basis of 



was appearing. Now the supreme power which is 



1 in the patriarch of the irroiip, faced now problems 



of 01 - <-ed upon it by the contact of a rulinir 



and a subject population. The old usages were found in 



effectual in dealing with the complex relations which had 



arisen. Unattached to the tribes with which they had 



cast their fortunes, but acquiring \\valth and power, the 



miscellaneous elements living <>n the tribal domain de- 



manded juristic and political rights. 19 Comme 



\M were first granted with hut little hesitation. But 



p. 482; and 8ebohm, Y.-Tke Tribal Syttem in Walet. and fn 

 bnl r l4 sf..... I'M .4 *glo-8**on Latr ; Seebohm, If. K.Tkr Strvcttirt of Or*ek 

 Tribal And Tkc Ycnrtotia* Code, Ancient La** and InstiMat of 



Wmim, 

 ttGiddinf, rrincimto, pp. 314-331. 



