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referred by the creditor’s chief to the Undang, whose order 
for payment could not be disregarded. 
A Warts credit in the eleven tribes the Undang had the 
power to recover by ordering, on the application of the To’ 
Perba, attachment of the real property of the debtor or his 
relations. That order could be made only by the Undang, 
and by him only in recovery of the debt of a non-waris to a 
warts: though in practice, his permission was commonly 
invoked after attachment had been effected by the officer 
in the tribe (bésar). 
Attachment of real property in execution was never 
followed by sale, but resulted in the officers of the Undang 
corfiscating the moveable property of any member of the 
debtor’s tribe. The formal attachment of land (réjab) was 
purely minatory. The subsequent confiscation of goods, of 
which notice had thus been duly given, was not always 
peaceably effected. But if the immigrant debtors had the 
satisfaction of breaking a head or two before paying, they did 
pay in the end, for the waris prerogative to attach land was 
indisputable. 
A creditor in an immigrant tribe had no such right 
against either a warts or any other debtor. The eleven tribes 
could enforce payment only by seizure of moveable property, 
but if delay ensued the immigrant creditor, on occasion, 
abandoned. his legal remedy and restored to the “ trial by 
stones” (séngketa batu). He went to his tribal officer, (bésar), 
called his kinsmen, donned his shield, seized his sling, and set 
off to peg out his debtor’s land with posts and dig it up,’ to 
brand it as a debtor’s property. These were extreme 
measures, and never adopted except in the two cases of a 
disputed inheritance, or an unpaid marriage fee. The debtor, 
on his part, was ready, too, to try the case by slings and 
stones. In the fight that followed wounds were not com- 
pensated (pampas), though substitutes were given for the 
slain, and when the Undang appeared on the field, and fined all 
warriors impartially, the debtor was satisfied to eeu the claim. 
(1) vide App. I. Saying XLII. 
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