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Acting as priests
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Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and children
Blessing and cursing their children
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Forming treaties and alliances
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The authority of heads of families for, acknowledged
Training, &c their servants for war
Vested in the heads of families
Vindicating their wrongs