The treaty throws light upon the clan-system still obtaining in seventh-century Arabia.

Many such "clan rules" exist in China and also in Japan which took over this innovation.

"Stop that clan-feud!"

Clans set apart special pieces of land as clan land; the income of this land was to be used to secure a minimum of support for every clan member and his own family, so that no member ever could fall into utter poverty.

A new development in this period were the "clan estates" (i-chuang), created by Fan Chung-yen (989-1052) in 1048.

Clans set apart special pieces of land as clan land; the income of this land was to be used to secure a minimum of support for every clan member and his own family, so that no member ever could fall into utter poverty.

Its suzerains are the president and board of directors; its clan chiefs are the men who have built it and fought for its footing in the sharply contested field of competition.

The old clan-blood of the Wileys must have made me murder-mad that Ruggam should regain his freedom permanently after the hellish thing he did to my brother.

[NOTE.Yin and Keih were clan names of great families, the ladies of which would be leaders of fashion in the capital.

From what precedes it will be understood that there were in ancient Ireland from prehistoric times people not comprised in the clan organization, and therefore not enjoying its rights and advantages or entitled to any of its land, some of whom were otherwise free within certain areas, while some were serfs and some slaves.

Even the government became more money-minded: costs of operations and even of wars were carefully calculated in order to achieve savings; financial specialists were appointed by the government, just as clans appointed such men for the efficient administration of their clan properties.

A number of such clans made a tribe, which had one language and was governed by a council of the clan sachems.

"There's your clan-sign, you Campbells, you McDonalds," he said, with a terrifying smile which none could misinterpret.

Early Irish history is not the record of the clan-strivings of a petty and remote population, far from the centre of civilization.

For Robin Oig's father, Lachlan M'Combich, (or, son of my friend, his actual clan surname being M'Gregor,) had been so called by the celebrated Rob Roy, because of the particular friendship which had subsisted between the grandsire of Robin and that renowned cateran.

"My ancestor, the old chief Tati," he told me, "cut down the sacred trees of our clan marae near by, the aitos, tamanus, and miros.

While on the one hand, a new "clan consciousness" grew up among the gentry families in order to secure their power, tax and corvée legislation especially in the eleventh century induced many families to split up into small families.

Then I was instructed by sachems and I learned what the witch-drums say, and I need use no signs in the six languages or the clan dialects, save only when I speak with the Lenni-Lenape.

Are persons of the same gens buried together; and is the clan distinction obsolete, or did it ever prevail? 4th.

But there is the case of dignity in Lowland Lairds as well as clan-headship in Highland Chiefs.

He suspected them of clan loyalty to one of their own number; and yet they had never failed him before.

Hunting Hutuktu, religious ruler Hydraulic society i-chuang, clan manors Ili, river Imperialism (see Colonialism) India (see Brahmans, Bengal, Gandhara, Calcutta, Buddhism) Indo-China (see Cambodia, Annam, Laos).