Feudal privileges often included tax and other immunities.

Notice the bronze hands over the fireplace. A person sentenced to be behanded might by law commute the punishment by paying a certain sum, and presenting a bronze hand marked with the name, crime, etc.

If for centuries, this particular animal is known to attack only one kind of other animal, are we not justified in assuming that when one of them attacks a hitherto unclassed animal, he recognises in that animal some quality which it has in common with the hereditary enemy?"

She could hardly have made a more untoward choice.