 Holmes reported that in Anglo-Saxon practice, the feud was pretty well broken up by the time of William the Conqueror.The killings and house-burnings of an earlier day became the appeals of mayhem and arson, and then the legal actions now familiar to lawyers.In 1980, in the case of "Stone v. Graham", the Supreme Court of the United States held unconstitutional a Kentucky statute that required posting the Ten Commandments on the wall of each public classroom in the state.