Anthropologists have demonstrated that an alternative to combat, customary law, exists in all human societies, even those without written languages, courts, or judges. The hallmarks of customary law are efforts at mediation between conflicting parties, reliance on traditional standards of reasonable behavior, and the binding character of socially recognized rights and duties. The legal term which denotes the 'binding' quality of mutual rights and duties is

answer: a

explanation:

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the historians cited in the article all agree with one another about the cause of the civil war. despite coming from different backgrounds and cultures, the historians agree that slavery was the root cause of the civil war. the fact that all these historiansgenerally agree with one another makes their shared viewpoints more reliable and valid, especially because the historians have different backgrounds and all work for the well-respected institutions of howard university, clemson university, and the university of colorado.

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