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Commissioner sent by the Government of India in 
1837, who in one of his reports remarks “No one 
can be more fully satisfied than I am of the total 
inapplicability of the fictions and refinements and 
pedantries of English law practice to the circum- 
stances and usages of the Straits population.” 
The tenure of a large part of the land in the 
town of Malacca remains at the present day as it was 
in the days of Dutch rule. Possession is evidenced 
in many cases by documents of title in Dutch. Land 
in the country is held under grant or lease from the 
Crown and also according to customary tenure as 
defined by the Malacca Lands Ordinance of 1886 now 
incorporated in Ordinance No. 39. 
8. LAND RULES IN BRUNEI. 
By L. A. Allen. 
British Resident, Brunei. 
MEMORANDUM 
regarding the alienation of land and the method 
of application for land in the State of Brunei. 
State Land. 
All forest and unalienated land belongs to the 
State. 
Documents of Title. 
All alienated land is held by entry in a District 
Register and Extracts from District Registers 
are issued to holders of lands in the same way 
as Extracts from Mukim Registers are issued 
in the Federated Malay States. 
