Today we have legal contracts and lawyers. What was the actual binding power of someones, "word?"

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Was it like an honor thing where if you went back on it, you would be exiled or something? I just want some clarity to how people made sure other people held up their end of any deal.

LoneKharnivore

We need a period to work with here from, what, 4000 years of recorded history?