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The Great Profit of the Lords of Manors. Abstract This chapter builds on the observation by Samuel Pepys that ‘the great profit of the lords of manors upon the sea coasts lay in wrecks’, where they and their tenants ‘do most savagely make prey of all shipwrecked persons, goods, and vessels’. Though often overlooked, the energetic assertion of seigneurial rights around the coastline demonstrates that manorial courts and manorial claims remained active well beyond the Middle Ages. The lords of coastal manors claimed ‘benefit of wreck’ on their shores, and defended that right with vigour against rival proprietors, Admiralty officials, and their own tenants. Examples from Cornwall to Cumberland…

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Bounty Hunter Reward System: A Necessary Management Evil? – A Case Study of Sri Lanka Customs. Making successful management reforms and employing modern change management techniques requires striking a balance between employee satisfaction and operational performance. In this endeavour, Sri Lanka Customs has found that the incentive of rewards takes the centre stage between operational performance and employee satisfaction. This case study dissects various elements involved in a 150-year old, ‘pay half the catch’ customs rewards scheme that was approved by the Parliament, but has yet to be exposed to the outside modern world. Is Customs an enforcer, collector, protector or a facilitator? Is…

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Barrio Azteca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbarjo asˈteka]), or Los Aztecas (pronounced [los asˈtekas]), is a Mexican-American street and prison gang originally based in El Paso, Texas, USA and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The gang was formed in the Coffield Unit, located near Tennessee Colony, Texas by Jose "Raulio" Rivera, a prisoner from El Paso, in the early 1980s. It expanded into a transnational criminal organization that traded mainly across the US-Mexico border. Currently one of the most violent gangs in the United States, they are said to have over 3,000 members across the country in locations such as New Mexico, Texas, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania as well as at least 5,000 mem…

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