Out of the thirty-nine statements collected, thirty-one describe a certain group or family as owning a definite tract of country in common; this group is, by definition, what we called above the local group. But there are some complications as to its rights of possession over the given area. On the one hand there is some kind of "over-right" of the tribe over the district inhabited by all the local groups of which it is composed.[450] On the other hand there is a further complication arising from the alleged individual claims to landed property. As to the tribal over-right, it presents itself chiefly in the fact that, first, tribesmen (members of related and friendly local groups) are often invited and allowed on the territory of the local group; secondly, in cases of trespass, while strangers are punished severely (often by death), tribesmen are only considered slightly culpable. The tribe may probably sometimes congregate as a whole on a part of its grounds with the consent of the local group concerned. We must imagine the local groups of the same tribe as living in amicable relations and voluntarily exercising hospitality towards each other, especially in cases when food is plentiful on their territory.[451] But as a general rule the whole tribe neither uses its whole district, nor has a local group, forming a division of the tribe, the right to use any but its own territory without asking permission. The tribal over-right seems therefore of little importance. [450] Compare G. C. Wheeler, _loc. cit._, pp. 62-67. In the above statements I did not include explicitly all the contexts referring to this point, as it lies outside our proper field of investigation. It may be found, more or less explicitly, in some of them (J. D. Lang, _e. g._). I mentioned it here only to give a fuller account of all aspects under which possession of land presents itself in Australia. [451] Compare Wheeler, _loc. cit._, where this question is thoroughly discussed, and also Curr, pp. 244 _sqq._, Roth, Bull. 8, p. 9; Salvado, p. 265; Grey, ii. p. 272; Browne, _loc. cit._, p. 445; G. S. Lang, p. 5.