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The warrior might have been an enemy, to be killed on sight, but considerations of class, and propriety, become involved. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 31, Sentence #47)

Indeed, a superb Pani sword, composed of matched steels, with its successive temperings, layerings, and edgings, usually the product of several smiths, which takes weeks to bring to its perfection, is booty of no small price. Warriors will commonly kill a peasant who is found in possession of one. One supposes that a peasant is not entitled to such a weapon, that such a weapon should not be entrusted to a peasant, indeed, that it is forbidden to them, that it dishonors so fine a weapon if it should be so unworthily, so shamefully, possessed, and that a peasant, in any case, could not afford such a weapon, and so has stolen it, and, as warriors are reluctant to part with such things, on which their lives may hinge, that a warrior must have been killed to obtain it. The warrior might have been an enemy, to be killed on sight, but considerations of class, and propriety, become involved. It is not unknown for an enemy to avenge the death of an enemy, if the enemy was thought to have been inappropriately slain. Warriors who seek one another's head may have more in common with one another than either of them will have with an individual of a different quality, even a supposed ally. Too, perhaps it is unwise to allow, say, a peasant, or merchant, to possess an object of such lethal beauty; who knows what may occur in the night, or if one should be careless in crossing an unfamiliar threshold? "You are Arashi, the bandit, are you not?" said the fellow, the warrior, tightly bound, sitting cross-legged on the floor, next to Tajima. - (Rebels of Gor)