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bers. The post of panglima kawōm, like all Achehnese offices, devolves by inheritance, but as we have seen above, the holder of this office
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may take no share in the territorial government. As regards the panglimaship, the three allied tribes count as one; where there exists a panglima of any one of them, he has no colleagues from the other two and attends to the interests of all alike. A blood-debt of any one of these kawōms is also regarded as resting on all three.
Vengeance for blood and blood-money.Settlement of blood-feuds seems in ancient times to have been made almost exclusively by the exacting of vengeance. While the latter is expressed by a word of Indian origin (bila) the milder custom of blood-money is only denoted by the Arabic appellation diët. Although the