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A simple majority decides the outcome of any vote and in the event of a tie the chair shall have the casting vote. (phcs.org.uk)

Committee decisions shall be taken on the basis of a simple majority vote of those present. In the event of a tie the Chairman shall have a casting vote. (avgc.co.uk)

We are still bound by the closest ties to our nearest neighbours: ties of friendship, common culture, mutual interest and economic benefit. (Evening Standard)

Frankpledge, earlier known as frith-borh (literally "peace-pledge"[1]), was a system of joint suretyship common in England throughout the Early Middle Ages. The essential characteristic was the compulsory sharing of responsibility among persons connected through kinship, or some other kind of tie such as an oath of fealty to a lord or knight. All men over 12 years of age were joined in groups of approximately ten households. This unit, under a leader known as the chief-pledge or tithing-man, was then responsible for producing any man of that tithing suspected of a crime. If the man did not appear, the entire group could be fined. (Wikipedia)