!!!Fehde

Feud, a private war in the Middle Ages between two parties, clans or 
families to settle legal claims. In the late Middle Ages the number of 
feuds rose dramatically; some 1,440 members of the Austrian nobility 
feuded with Archduke Friedrich III. King Maximilian I issued the 
Proclamation of Eternal Peace (Ewiger Landfrieden) in 1495, banning 
the practice of feuds and making them subject to punishment under the 
law. After the Austrian Penal Code was enacted, feuds became obsolete.


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