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The mund is a principle in Germanic tradition and law that can be crudely translated as "protection" and which grew as the prerogative of a Germanic tribe king or leader. It has been Latinized in ''mundium''. The word comes from Germanic *''mundo'' (cf. Old English/Old Norse ''mund''), 'hand; protection'. ==The ''mund'' within the family== The ''mund'' is basically the leadership of an ancestor of a family, a family which is understood as all the people related by the blood to this ancestor, exerted over all and each of the family members. The ancestor's responsibility is more aimed at the family as a whole than towards each member individually. The ''mund'' manifests itself as a disciplinary power upon the members of the family; the tenant of the ''mund'' has to watch over the women's chastity and faithfulness to prevent the family honour from being harmed, in the first case if a bride is not a virgin at the time of her departure from the family, in the second, if sons are born that are not of the common blood. It also has to control the male family members who may cast shame on the family honour, who may not serve the family, or who may endanger the whole family by their imprudence (for example by drawing the family into a feud. Thus the keeper of the ''mund'' can ban a member from the family. In this aspect, it is a coercive power, an authority, but not understood as the Roman ''auctoritas''. It is also the responsibility to defend the family's well-being and existence from all dangers and offenses (be they against the body or the honour). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mund (law)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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