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entitled to the land so reserved as a guarantee, but is bound, 
should she enjoy the usufruct of that land pending the holder’s 
death, to feed and support her aged relative. 
The sale, or mortgage, of ancestral property outside the 
family or tribe is strictly forbidden, as contrary to the 
principles underlying the possession of tribal property. Aliena- 
tion is permissible only if necessary to the performance of 
such duties of the holder of the property as the payment of 
the debts of custom or inheritance.’ The sole exception to 
this rule is a concession to religion. 
A holder of ancestral property, to which no immediate 
heirs exist, may dispose of that property to pay for pilgrimage 
to Mecca. She must however grant an option of purchase to 
her tribe before seeking a buyer elsewhere. Under Malay 
rule, if a buyer was found in another tribe, the tribal chiefs of 
either party met on the land, beat the bounds, and planted posts 
to mark it off, before the price was paid. 
The consideration of acquired property (herta charian), 
and of the rules governing inheritance thereto, pertains 
rather to the treatment of the custom relating to marriage- 
settlements and divorce. A brief statement will be sufficient 
here. 
Acquired property, as has been stated, is of two kinds :— 
(1) Acquired during wedlock : (charian laki bind). 
(2) Aequired by a male whilst a bachelor, or widower 
(charian bujang). 
(1) Property acquired during the wedlock, the join 
earnings of man and wife, descends on the death of the wife 
to the female issue: on the death of the husband, it vests in 
the widow, for the benefit of the female issue.° 
When that acquired property has once passed into the 
possession of the children, it ranks, thence forward, as an- 
ace (1) vide supra p. ie 
(2) vide App. I. Saying XXIII and chap. II. section 4 p. 47. 
(3) vide App. I. Saying XLIX. 
R, A. Soc., No. 56, 1910. 
Alienat ion 
and hypothe- 
cation of an- 
cestral _ pro- 
perty. 
When _per- 
missable. 
Procedure on 
sale or mort- 
gage. 
II, Acquired 
Property 
of two kinds. 
Charian laki 
bini. 
Rule of in- 
heritance to. 
_ On death of 
joint owners. 
