Editing Teip (section)

==Traditional rules and features==
Common teip rules and some features include:<ref name=latautonomy>[http://www.latautonomy.org/TraditionalSocialOrganisationChechens.pdf Traditional Social Organisation of Chechen people] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719234640/http://www.latautonomy.org/TraditionalSocialOrganisationChechens.pdf |date=2011-07-19 }}</ref>
* The right of communal land tenure.
* Common revenge practices for the murder of a teip member or insulting of the members of a teip.
* Unconditional [[exogamy]].
* Election of a teip representative.
* Election of a headman.
* Election of a military leader in case of war.
* Open sessions of the Council of Elders.
* The right of the teip to depose its representatives.
* Representation of women is done by male relatives.
* The right of adoption of outside people.
* The transfer of property of departed members to members of the teip.
* The teip has a defined territory.
* The teip constructed [[Vainakh medieval towers|a teip tower]] or another building or natural monument convenient as a shelter, e.g. a fortress.
* The teip had its own teip cemetery.
* The teip tradition of hospitality.