Exodus 21:35

-If this admirable statute were faithfully administered now, it would prevent many angry, and sometimes fatal, feuds between herds-men, and at the same time would be a very fair adjustment of the questions of equity that grow out of such accidents" (Thomson, L. and B.ii. 283). It is now the -custom of the desert" (Doughty, Arab. Deserta, i. 351).