Explanation

1. Through their intermediary role as representatives of the gods
2. Powers to appoint and dismiss officials
3. Adjudication of laws/settlement of disputes
4. Rewards/honour
5. Enforcement of customs, traditions and conventions
6. Punish law breakers/deviants in society/Banishment of criminals  
7. Organise and supervise communal labour
8. Imposition of levies/taxes
9. Law making functions 
10. Formulation and implementation of policies 
11. Symbol of power and authority
12. Custodians of the land
13. Invocation of spirits of the ancestors to regulate the conduct of their subjects
14. Oath taking by the subjects
15. Dethronement of sub-chiefs
16. The use of trial by ordeal
17. The establishment of law enforcement institutions.

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