This is at least partially incorrect. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly) and https://en.wikipedia

This is at least partially incorrect. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_law You make that sound like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie , which obviously wasn't the case.