An individual would not be allowed out on bail or bond because if a person committed a serious crime like murder, or is thought as a threat to society or the community, the bail would be AUTOMATICALLY denied.
I believe they were called Founders.
People deprecate assault because for them, assaults to religious, learned and civil institutions, is also assaults to the property.
Ralph Waldo Emerson detailed in his essay, "Self-Reliance", that men have esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property. Thus, assault to these are assault to property. Their esteem is measured by what they have, and not what they are.
Family was important, becuase they started a league, and it was to help others, and protect/fight other tribes