— ix-~ 177 



two-thirds to him who has made the plantation. The 

 same is the rule in the case of rice-fields, laid out by 

 a person on the land of another. But if a man makes 

 a clearing [for a farm of upland padi and vegetables] 

 on the waste land of another without the knowledge 

 and consent of the latter, who thereupon complains, 

 the owner of the land shall get it and if the trespasser 

 persists, he shall be fined ten amas.* 



If the land is left by the cultivator, and another 

 comes and makes a plantation thereon, or otherwise 

 cultivates on it, the latter shall be fined by the judge 

 one taliil and one pciha for he has forcibly encroached 

 upon the rights of another. If it is the owner of the 

 land who does this, there is, of course, nothing to be 

 said. Such is the law regarding tanali hidop, and it is 

 firmly established and followed both in towns and in 

 the country and in all districts and divisions of the 

 State. 



[Huma or Laclang land. Customary Eules as to fencing and as to 



the simultaneous burning of a general clearing. 



Malacca Code.'] 



To declare the law regarding up- land farms and 

 clearing. If the newly-felled timber on such a clear- 

 ing is fired by some one and is successfully burned, 

 there is nothing to be said. But if it is not burned 

 off, the person who set fire to it must be ordered to 

 lop and pile the branches on half the clearing, 

 or, if it should belong to a Chief, on the whole 

 clearing. If a number of persons clear land in con- 

 cert, and when each has felled his portion, one of them 

 of his own individual motion and without any general 



* 1 mas or anuis=l mayatn=lth. of the weight in gold of a Spanish dollar ? 



